FDA may be given control of tobacco
Posted by Hua Kul on Tuesday, 17-Jul-2007
This is a true manifestation of a Nanny State.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal agency charged with keeping food and drugs from harming people may soon be asked to take a consumer product that kills more than 400,000 people a year and make it safer.
The product is the cigarette—generally acknowledged as anything but safe. Smoking accounts for nearly one in five deaths in the United States.
That toll can be reduced, tobacco foes say, and they point to a bill that is expected to pass a Senate committee Wednesday as the tool to make it happen.
The legislation would give the Food and Drug Administration the same authority over cigarettes and other tobacco products that the regulatory agency already has over countless other consumer products. It's not something the agency necessarily wants, according to past comments by FDA commissioner Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach.
The bill would let the FDA regulate the levels of tar, nicotine and other harmful components of tobacco products...
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- Re: FDA may be given control of tobacco
- Posted by Jim on Tuesday, 17-Jul-2007
As if they'll do anything useful. Just look at how helpful they've been with the wonderful drugs that have been released over the last few years. Drugs that are later found to be quite harmful.
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The simple way to make safer tobacco products is to ban the harmful fertilizers containing radioactive materials and clean up the residual radioactive material from the tobacco fields. CClick on the links for more info.
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- Urea
- Posted by Kerry on Sunday, 23-Sep-2007
Perhaps you meant to say "urea"? In that case, you may be correct depending on what tobacco you smoke. Please note that "urea" is not "urine", and is used in many other consumer products.
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Here's a wiki link for more info:[link]
- and ammonia
- Posted by dc on Friday, 28-Sep-2007
ammonia isnt added as a flavor enhancer. it's used chemically to crack a hydrogen molecule off the nicotine, turning it into "free-base" nicotine, which vaporizes nicely as highly bioactive nicotine.
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kinda same idea as using sodium bicarb (or even ammonia) to make freebase "crack" cocaine.
ammonia evaporates at a rediculously low temp (it boils at like -30c), which means you arent smoking the ammonia. (I'm sure it shows up as a trace somewhere in lab tests, but everything does).