Time To Regulate:

• The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is a government agency put in place to regulate consumable products. The FDA’s most important function is to ensure the safety of products that Americans consume. Yet, somehow, tobacco IS NOT regulated by the FDA. Why?
• Tobacco companies pony up some big dough for lobbying, Basically they give $$$ to politicians, so that they create and support laws that help keep tobacco under the radar.
• Big tobacco claims that is isn’t a food or a drug, or even used to administer a drug, and that’s why they don’t need FDA regulation. But isn’t nicotine addictive, just like drugs?
• If tobacco was ever to be regulated by the FDA, it would mean that they COULDN’T: advertise to kids, sell to kids, make candy-flavored products, include harmful ingredients in cigarettes, try to pass off “reduced risk” cigarettes as somehow safer, hide ingredients, or hide findings of their research.