{"id":9938,"date":"2011-11-13T19:35:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T00:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9938"},"modified":"2011-11-13T19:35:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T00:35:02","slug":"tackiness-prevented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9938","title":{"rendered":"Tackiness Prevented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Jacoby at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/2011\/11\/13\/can-still-breathe-deep-free-speech\/xiit8A2u9DocmZcaPiYrxM\/story.html\">Boston Globe<\/a>\u00a0posted an article today about the decision last week by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/graphic-cigarette-warning-labels-blocked-by-judge\/2011\/11\/07\/gIQAg1idvM_print.html\">US District Judge Richard Leon\u00a0<\/a>to block a Food And Drug Administration (FDA) rule that would require cigarette manufacturers to put graphic images on cigarette packs showing the dangers of smoking.<\/p>\n<p>A few disclaimers here&#8211;I don&#8217;t smoke&#8211;never have&#8211;I hate the smell of cigarette smoke, but I don&#8217;t think smokers should be forced to stand in the freezing snow outside a restaurant to enjoy a cigarette. (However, they do need a separate section of the establishment with a separate ventilation system,)<\/p>\n<p>However, required graphic images on cigarette packs is a bit much even for a non-smoker like me.<\/p>\n<p>The article points out:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The FDA\u2019s gruesome new labels are not designed to provide consumers with useful information about the hazards of smoking. After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livestrong.com\/article\/267016-surgeon-generals-warnings-on-smoking\/\">45 years of mandatory Surgeon General\u2019s warnings<\/a>, every non-comatose American knows perfectly well that cigarettes are a noxious health risk. That\u2019s why the share of Americans who smoke at least occasionally has fallen to an all-time low of 19.3 percent, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tobacco\/data_statistics\/tables\/trends\/cig_smoking\/index.htm\">less than 1 in 5<\/a> \u2014 a far cry from the more than 42 percent who were smokers in 1965. No one, not even Big Tobacco, disputes Washington\u2019s right to require cigarette makers to disclose pertinent facts about their product\u2019s dangers. Those disclosures, it\u2019s clear, have been effective.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government has no power to require the cigarette companies to put graphic images on their cigarette packs. To me, the requirement that there be an anti-smoking warning is a stretch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=25389061-842a-4cfc-b299-6c98037b2e81\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe\u00a0posted an article today about the decision last week by\u00a0US District Judge Richard Leon\u00a0to block a Food And Drug Administration (FDA) rule that would require cigarette manufacturers to put graphic images on cigarette packs showing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9938\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1211,786,1212,194,1214,1215,1213],"class_list":["post-9938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-big-tobacco","tag-boston-globe","tag-cigarette","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-health-effects-of-tobacco","tag-jeff-jacoby","tag-richard-j-leon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9949,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions\/9949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}