Tobacco Products hinder Aid Health Care

Published on June 29, 2009 10:20 AM

At last, the use of tobacco products will get regulated by the federal government.

It is surprising that such a declaration would have to be made, because for decades, in spite of all the findings of the harms they cause, tobacco products did not come under the Food and Drug Administration's supervision.

For the first time, tobacco companies, one of the most powerful lobbying forces in the nation, had no power of protecting their products. The House of Representatives and Senate have reached contract on a violate bill, and President Barack Obama signed it into law during a ceremony in the Rose Garden.

The new approved legislation will force larger health-warning labels on cigarette packages, will ban tobacco-related sponsorships of sports and entertainment events, and will eliminate all kinds of flavored cigarettes that can very easy attract minors to smoking.

These all measures are intended to curbing kids and young adults from picking up the bad habit. That's because tobacco companies have used all sorts of creative marketing schemes for to attract teens and adolescents, such as color advertisements and store displays too frequently found in leading locations.

They decided to attract minors to start smoking, because millions of people eventually quit cigarettes as they get older, but tobacco industry need to enlarge their income. And it new plan of attracting adolescents work, as statistics show that each day an estimated 3,500 young people start smoking their first cigarette, a remarkable and alarming number that must be reduced.

The government would not outlaw tobacco or ban nicotine because smokers can’t leave without it. That’s why government wants only to decrease the smokers’ amount especially among minors. For to attain it aim the government would force more disclosure from tobacco companies about what is in their products.

That’s why the FDA was empowered to make cigarettes less harmful by regulating the amount of nicotine levels and other dangerous chemicals which they comprise. The cigarette industry also will be forbid from using certain labels, such as "low tar" and "light."

For encouraging better health, the government also helps to lessen tobacco-related health-care prices. The nation spends about $100 billion a year in costs attributed to smoking, such as treating lung cancer, emphysema and other illnesses that can lead to death.