Elijah - Comment

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) is a great start on a problem that should have corrected long ago. Just by the fact that the U.S. continues to allow the smoking industry to operate the way that it does is an insult to all taxpayers. I recently knew a man who passed away from lung cancer as a result of 20+ years of smoking. While he was a friend of mine I was infuriated that he had absolutely no insurance thus the hospital had to pick up the bill and from there the taxpayers in my city had to pay for. Not to mention the passing of the new healthcare reform bill. Personally I feel that advertising for tobacco industries should be severed from public view, on top of that smokers should be limited to where they can smoke to prevent people like myself or an adolescent from inhaling the toxic fumes. Why should the non-smokers have to pay for advertising for tobacco industries or worse their medical bills? I say that the FDA should cross the road less traveled and cease the sales of tobacco products and outlaw them and treat them as any other drug (or poison) that people put into their bodies.