{"id":905,"date":"2009-06-12T20:47:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T20:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=905"},"modified":"2009-06-12T20:47:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T20:47:39","slug":"the_tobacco_bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"The Tobacco Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/obama-hails-passage-of-tobacco-regulation-bill-2009-06-12.html\">The Hill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The House agreed to the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act on a 307-97 vote. The bill, sent to Obama on Friday, empowers the FDA to regulate tobacco products. Obama is expected to sign it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">Technically, I don&#8217;t have a horse in this race&#8211;I don&#8217;t smoke and never did&#8211;but I wonder&nbsp;about the wisdom of&nbsp;allowing the FDA to regulate tobacco.&nbsp; Are we on the way to making tobacco illegal?&nbsp; Are the &#8216;green&#8217; people going to come up with some sort of vegetable people can smoke who want to continue their smoking habit?&nbsp; What about the fact that the government makes more money from the sale of a pack of cigarettes than the tobacco company does?&nbsp; How is the government going to replace that revenue? &nbsp;Tobacco Subsidies in United States totaled <a href=\"http:\/\/farm.ewg.org\/farm\/progdetail.php?fips=00000&amp;progcode=tobacco\"><font color=\"#666666\">$530 million <\/font><\/a>from 1995-2005, what happens to that money?&nbsp; Does it continue?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">As you can see, I have more questions than answers.&nbsp; Admittedly, smoking is not necessarily a positive habit, but this law represents another limitation of personal freedom coming down the road.&nbsp; Can trans fat be far behind?&nbsp; When do I have to give up my ice cream?&nbsp; What about moose munch?&nbsp; Where will we draw the line?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Hill: &#8220;The House agreed to the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act on a 307-97 vote. The bill, sent to Obama on Friday, empowers the FDA to regulate tobacco products. Obama is expected to sign it.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=905\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}