As you may recall, there was lots of chatter among liberals last year about banning menthol cigarettes. They ended up postponing that move because they thought it would hurt Democrats in the election.
Now that Democrats lost and Joe Biden is on his way out the door, his FDA is working to ban ALL cigarettes.
Why can’t Democrats just leave people alone? Not to mention the fact that this would undoubtedly create a new black market for cigarettes.
FOX News reports:
Biden admin working to effectively ban cigarettes in 11th hour proposal a ‘gift’ to cartels, expert says
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving forward with a regulatory rule in the final days of the Biden administration that would effectively ban cigarettes currently on the market in favor of products with lower nicotine levels, which could end up boosting business for cartels operating on the black market, an expert tells Fox News Digital.
“Biden’s ban is a gift with a bow and balloons to organized crime cartels with it, whether it’s cartels, Chinese organized crime, or Russian mafia. It’s going to keep America smoking, and it’s going to make the streets more violent,” Rich Marianos, former assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the current chair of the Tobacco Law Enforcement Network, told Fox News Digital of the proposal.
The FDA confirmed to Fox Digital on Monday that as of Jan. 3, the Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Level of Certain Tobacco Products had completed a regulatory review, but that the proposed rule has not yet been finalized.
Ward Clark writes at RedState:
The Biden administration appears to have learned nothing from Prohibition, or any other time the federal government has tried this kind of heavy-handed approach. The Mexican cartels, when they learn of this, will be rubbing their hands together in glee; another billion-dollar black market will soon be opening up, courtesy of the Biden administration, complete with turf wars and all that goes with it.
I can’t figure out why the outgoing administration wants to limit nicotine in cigarettes.
Smoking rates are at a historic low, and it’s well-known what people will do when restrictions are placed.
They will smoke more or source their nicotine from alternative “black markets.” https://t.co/nQM2TPN3Hr pic.twitter.com/rjubYUU2W5
— Gunther Eagleman
(@GuntherEagleman) January 8, 2025
What’s next? Banning junk food? A government that comes after smoking wouldn’t think twice about coming after your potato chips.
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