Friday, August 21, 2009

Health Freedom Advocate Says Criminalizing Cigarettes is a mistake

The U.S. Congress has just voted to divide the tobacco as a medicine, the transfer of the FDA regulatory authority to control the advertising, marketing and sale of cigarettes. This hilarious move, if approved by the Senate and signed by the President, the FDA will put in the position of approving the sale of "drugs" that the entire medical community openly acknowledges kills millions of people. According to the CDC, tobacco kills 438,000 people each year in the United States alone (1). Now, thanks to the U.S. Congress, the FDA may soon be the government office responsible for the resolution of these 438,000 deaths per year!

Think about this: Currently, the FDA approved drugs kill about 100,000 Americans a year, but if you believe that conservative figures of American Medical Association (the real figure is at least twice). Add tobacco deaths in this list, and you have come to realize that the striking, if tobacco is considered to be FDA approved "drugs", then the FDA approved drugs kill more than half a million Americans every year! (538,000 deaths per year due to FDA approved drugs, using government statistics.)

This level of mortality that terrorists do not have even come close to approaching.


Why does not the FDA wants to regulate tobacco

It is clear that the FDA does not want to be in this position, because if the regulatory authority over tobacco is shoved to the FDA, it will be forced to declare an unapproved tobacco, drugs and unsafe to prohibit its sale.

Why? Since there were no clinical studies supporting the use of tobacco as a drug. And if it is seen as a drug, the FDA should apply the same rules to tobacco, that it applies to other substances. And it is not a series of clinical trials have shown tobacco can be safe and effective in treating diseases. (If, of course, Big Tobacco is funding the study, and in this case, cigarette smoke could be seen as cancer drugs, due to fraudulent and corrupt science researchers ...)

Thus, if the FDA were to follow their own rules, you will have to ban tobacco easy, considering it "unapproved drugs", and attacked all the tobacco companies, confiscating their inventory and drag them into court as to the FDA whether the diet pill companies, manufacturers, or cherry .

Of course, we could resolve the FDA NOT to selectively apply its own rules against tobacco companies, but it puts the agency in an even worse position to make an exception in its policy to combat drugs, providing the most dangerous "drugs" created as one that escapes regulatory suspiciously. This would make the FDA look even more regulatory failure, as has already been called into question the FDA simply builds its regulatory decisions on the size and influence of corporations instead of the victims of genuine public safety.

Because let's face it: Cigarettes will kill you. There is no great debate. Even doctors - who are the lowest in the world to accept new ideas - are on board this. Of course, it took them a few decades to stop the performance of Greater Tobacco ads in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and doctors used to take money from tobacco companies say cigarettes are "Recommended by doctors, but those days have long passed. Today, virtually all agree with smoking cigarettes is one of the most hazardous activities, and the consumer can do, when it comes to health.

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