Jump to full article: The Daily Eastern News-Eastern Illinois Universty Paper, 2009-07-02
Intro: The new law will ban the production of "flavored" tobacco products and the use of the word "light" cigarettes. What I fail to understand is how this should apply to tobacco products but not alcohol products.
Obama says that 90 percent of people who smoke began at the age of 18 or younger and that is why flavored tobacco should be outlawed. So flavored tobacco is appealing to minors but flavored alcohol isn't?
News flash, President Obama, the average age of a first drink for a boy is 11 and for a girl 13. . . .
Smokers are taking on major fallout including outrageous tax prices all the while alcohol is somewhat affordable. Tobacco companies are suffering profit loss while the alcohol corporations grow richer. Some people may agree both should be banned from advertising and maybe so, but for now it remains a civil unbalance in some opinions.
How do we weigh one factor of loss of life as opposed to another?
What about fast food? Perhaps burgers should taste bad and be taxed like no other so that America will be forced to eat healthy.
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