Hawaii may ban slim cigarettes

[The Straight Story]

Hawaii may ban slim cigarettes

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii may ban slim cigarettes because some lawmakers believe they're marketed toward teenage girls.

A bill pending in the Legislature targets thin cigarettes packaged in pink and teal-colored lipstick-sized packs.

The measure specifically mentions Virginia Slims Superslims Lights, which are made by Philip Morris USA. The cigarette company didn't return an after-hours phone call seeking comment.

Jackie Young of the American Cancer Society says these kinds of cigarettes are meant to appeal to young girls who are attracted to their glamorous look.

But Young says looks can be deceiving because the cigarettes are filled with toxic chemicals.

http://www.kpua.net/news.php?id=17065

[TahitiNut]

1. Ban Assault Cigarettes!

:eyes:

[The Straight Story]

4. you would think all those people bitching about a woman having to many kids would endorse smoking

to help reduce the population and save the environment.

It all makes my fucking head swirl :)

[david13]

2. Ban All Cigarettes! n/t

[MineralMan]

6. Wow! You must have no bad habits, eh?

Because, if you do, I'm going to push to have them banned, too. Caffeine? Banned. Leather shoes? Banned. Burgers? Banned. Alcohol? Doubly banned. Unnecessary trips in your car? Banned, too.

Think about it, please, before you start banning things, OK?

Still...your concern is noted.

[david13]

10. Non sequitir n/t

[MineralMan]

15. How does it not follow?

You want to ban cigarettes. I want to ban whatever little vice you practice. Same thing, exactly.

[david13]

11. PS

Go for it.

[SOS]

16. That would open up a whole new black market

Buy packs in Mexico for $2 and sell 'em in the US for $20.

Could be a good way to solve the mortgage crisis.
Can't pay your bills?
Smuggle a case from Mexico and make a quick $4,320.

[DJ13]

3. Some people have waaaaaay too much time on their hands

[ProgressiveProfessor]

5. How about enforcing the rules that say you can not sell or give cigs to minors?

[pacalo]

7. That would be too logical.

:)

[Greyhound]

8. To what lengths are you willing to go to thoroughly enforce this ban?

Clerks can lose their positions and stores are fined for selling cigarettes to minors.

Should we begin arresting and interrogating minors caught smoking? Force them to give evidence against the suppliers and jail them when we find they've stolen the cigarettes? How much time and money are we going to spend trying to enforce yet another ban on personal choice? Perhaps another 500,000 police to patrol and search out the sources of cigarettes, or better yet, another agency with super-Constitutional powers along the lines of the DEA?

When will we learn that prohibition does not work?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

9. Same one that cities are going to with the ban on transfats?

Probably the best solution is for smoking to become declasse, though that is not without some baggage.

School counselor of my acquaintance said that they had gotten complaints about non-smoking students referring to smokers as stupid and refusing to have anything to do with them. They got calls from the rejected kids parents claiming it was racial.

[20score]

12. I'm beginning to think that as the Christian Right wanes in power, the anti-smoking nazis will take

their place as the most obnoxious group in the country.
People really want to start a prohibition on tobacco? Because the old one on alcohol and the present one on drugs has worked so well?

And yes, I'm aware that the post didn't say that, but that's the direction the country is taking.

[20score]

13. I may make this an OP.

[The Straight Story]

14. Go for it, I was thinking about an op:

Second Hand Kids - how others having kids affects my life by their consumption and how we should pressure our law makers to fine women who allow more than one child be born...since it will make my health care go up, they will consume which will harm the environment and make it harder for me to breath, etc and so on. Oh - and those kids should be banned from apartments as well - they smell, are noisy, and play with matches.

:evilgrin:

[20score]

17. Okay, I did it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4957098&mesg_id=4957098

[InkAddict]

18. Hawaiian girls probably prefer "fatties" anyway n/t

Legalize it; tax it, and put it in the State store.