Poll: Should the legislature act on flavored cigarettes?
Here's a new feature for the blog designed to allow you to have input in issues that are likely to be raised in state government. Of course, these polls aren't scientific, and I won't treat them as such, but they are a way for you speak directly to me and other legislators who read this blog on issues we're likely to be debating in the near future.
A few states currently in session are debating whether to ban flavored-cigarettes on the basis that the product is marketed towards today's youth. This category of cigarettes once included colorful names such as "Twista Lime" and "Kauai Kolada," but now features more subtle "Signature Mellow" with toasted honey and "Signature Robust" with cocoa and espresso flavor.
R.J. Reynolds said its marketing of flavored cigarettes won't use the following words: chocolate, sweet, cocoa, creamy, fruity, citrus, tart, tangy, vodka, rum, bourbon, and margarita. So what do you think? Should the state involve itself in this?
A few states currently in session are debating whether to ban flavored-cigarettes on the basis that the product is marketed towards today's youth. This category of cigarettes once included colorful names such as "Twista Lime" and "Kauai Kolada," but now features more subtle "Signature Mellow" with toasted honey and "Signature Robust" with cocoa and espresso flavor.
R.J. Reynolds said its marketing of flavored cigarettes won't use the following words: chocolate, sweet, cocoa, creamy, fruity, citrus, tart, tangy, vodka, rum, bourbon, and margarita. So what do you think? Should the state involve itself in this?
posted by Steve Harrelson @ 8/09/2007 06:22:00 AM | Permalink |
3 Comments:
That makes as much sense as a cherry flavored armor penetrating bullet.
Appears to be an attempt to capture new customers to offset the dwindling customers who have kicked the habit.
A Dr. Connelly recently spoke at a tobacco free gig in NLR on the Harvard study that showed the tobacco industry has been increasing nicotine in cigarettes for the last decade. His point, however, was to note the increasing amount of propylene glycol, the menthol and flavoring in new colorful flavored tobacco. The flavoring makes it easier for the body to absorb nicotine, and become an addict. The nicotine level in spit tobacco is 6 to 10 times a cigarette anyway. Check out all the pretty colors of spit tobacco next time you’re in the store. Check out if they’re not eye level to a child either.
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