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11 Comments
I am against banning any drugs.
Adults should be allowed to consume whatever they want—with the exception of antibiotics.
What was the death toll of the great binge?
Are the House Reps (mostly Dems) also planning to go after flavored edibles and other cannabis products? Flavored alcoholic beverages? . . .
(. . . asking for a friend.)
Congratulations folks, it’s gotta” take a extraordinary amount of hard work to make it appear that a nitwit like Tim Neville might actually have a bit of a point?
What's the point? That there are better policed and better regulated substances? That alcohol and cannabis death contribution is about 25% of tobacco?
I understand you want banana smash tutti frutti cigars available next to candy but as you grow up your taste will change.
I try to make it a policy not to argue with, or waste any of my time (or their little remaining) explaining, to persons in their dotage . . .
I'm actually shocked at these comments. Public health measures to deter kids from taking up tobacco? A known carcinogen. Sheesh.
Isn’t it already illegal for kids to purchase tobacco products? Doesn’t that deter them?
If I could wave my magic wand, I would just eradicate tobacco from the face of the earth.
Alternatively, as a pro-public health policy matter, I would make it illegal for anyone under the age of 95 to sell, use, or consume any tobacco product. (People most Polsters advanced age oughta’ have something to look forward to?)
“Deterring kids” by prohibiting anything (. . . like no kid in America ever smoked, or even thought of smoking, before flavored tobacco hit the shelves? Shocking. I know . . .) GLWT.
Denver's vetoed measure was intended to cut out the bubblegum flavored electronic cigarettes that are all the rage in middle school (a friend's tween daughter can attest to that), with a carve out for hookahs, if I recall. Hancock vetoed it unfortunately, leaving it for the state to handle.
So that's where we currently stand.
What's the point of banning sales of something in so geographically small a place as Denver when it's available in Lakewood, Englewood, or any other contiguous suburb?
Because it's better to save a few kids than to save none at all.
You do have to start somewhere DoReMi, and these flavored tobacco products are really harmful to kids. I’ve got one family member, who’s smoked for 50 years – he has half a lung left on one side. Two younger family members are heavy smokers now.
Nothing that I’ve ever said to them, no carrot or stick behavior incentives, has curbed their addiction in any way. Tobacco is supposed to be as addictive physiologically as heroin.. So at least making tobacco less available or attractive to potential smokers at a young age seems to me like a step in the right direction.
The bill would seem to include “vaping” products and e-cigarettes, which as anyone who’s visited a high school restroom in 2018-2020 can tell you, was a much bigger problem than the flavored cigars. “Juuls” were banned by the FDA in 2020, which was a good call. Tim Neville would probably call the ban “Nanny state overreach”, or something.
I did look up Swisher international and they contribute to a lot of Colorado candidates – mostly Republicans, through a PAC – CADPAC. Swisher is owned by the Ziegler family. I haven’t yet found a direct contribution from Swisher Int’l, the Zieglers, or CADPAC, to Tim Neville.