Here’s another example of your tax dollars at work in the wrong way: The New York Times reported earlier this month (I may have missed this because of the pressure of outside circumstances) two of the pols tapped for the FDA federal advisory committee for tobacco product safety, are consultants for drug companies that...
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Well, now. While the nation has been quick to damn tobacco, the rule makers have not been watching the back door as some really evildoers got away. The Food and Drug Administration, the huge federal bureaucracy that sets and gauges standards for our foods and drugs, has been working overtime to destroy the tobacco...
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By Zacque Hitchcock PSI Writer The United States since its conception has been dependent on tobacco. It has been an integral part of the overall country’s economy and the relaxation of its citizens. For a period of time, tobacco was actually used as a viable form of payment in the colonies. In addition, a...
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Here is a metaphor I want you to consider. I have a friend who once lived near Yellowstone National Park. He loved to venture to the park, watch the grizzly bears as they roamed wherever they wanted to roam. Being the top of the food chain, the griz feared neither man nor beast. My...
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THOUGHTS FROM A SMOKING STETHOSCOPE JANUARY 15, 2010 I am a pipe smoking family physician as well as a pipe carver (DR BOB PIPES) and I am appalled and angered by the anti-smoking propaganda that we pipe people have to labor under these days. I plan to have articles like this one appear in...
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The Tobacco business as we have known it in the past and as we understand it today is going to change. Some of the changes are not going to be pleasant for those of us who enjoy pipes and cigars. An argument can be made about how we embrace change: philosophically we know that...
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A funny thing happened to the gargantuan Food and Drug Administration as it set out to begin regulating the tobacco and smoking industry under its new Obama mandate: it stumbled over its big toe. Right out of the hat, the bully FDA thought it could ram through some stuff without facing consequences, or so...
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As if the FDA authority were not enough, the sweeping Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPATCA) adds an additional layer of legal headaches for smokers. The FDA, as you are no doubt well aware, has broad authority over tobacco products, as outlined in the new law. But, did you also know that...
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