Columnist and cigarette smoker David Marcus writes that a Biden administration proposal to lower the levels of nicotine in cigarettes is a de facto ban, and ill-advised.
In the final days of his failed presidency, President Joe Biden’s Food and Drug Administration is moving ahead with a preposterous and dangerous plan to all but ban the sale of cigarettes in the United States. It must never be allowed to happen. The harebrained scheme from the geniuses in Washington is to reduce the level of nicotine in a cigarette to an almost imperceptible level, rendering the product all but useless.
There are four basic reasons why this regulatory stomping out of cigarettes, a product associated with our nation for centuries, by the way, must never come to fruition. First and most importantly, my choice to smoke and that of over 25 million regular adult American smokers is none of Biden’s damn business. We all know it's dangerous. It's not 1950, and celebrities aren’t doing TV ads about which brand of smokes four out of five doctors prefer.
Isn’t it interesting that the government champions the smoking of marijuana, which makes people lazy and compliant, but rages against the smoking of tobacco, or even nicotine, which I believe has has sharpened the senses of Americans since Sir Walter Raleigh first took a puff? Future President Dwight D. Eisenhower smoked four packs of cigarettes a day while leading American troops during World War II. Thank God he wasn’t blazing blunts instead.
As smokers, we will pay through the nose in taxes, we will swallow the snide remarks about smelling like smoke, we will be driven onto the frozen streets, and on those corners by bars or restaurants we will be happy as we share our cigarettes along with the stories of our lives. The government will never take that away from smokers, and hopefully, as saner and more level heads move in to lead President-elect Donald Trump’s FDA it will never even try.
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