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This is just a reminder, the parallels between Trump and Hitler are many.
Trump hates drinking and smoking while Hitler also hated drinking and smoking.
If they represent what "sober" is, I'll take any and all drugs mainlined into my veins till the end of time please and thank you.
I mean, Hitler's personal doctor administered opiates and amphetamines to him daily. Trump has also been suspected of using amphetamines and his habit of projection would seem to support that, given he claimed Biden was on "performance-enhancing drugs." So, yeah I wouldn't worry about that mainline, as we know Hitler wasn't sober and there's a fair chance Trump isn't either.
I will be sad to hear of your passing when you decide to inject one whole weed
I will be sad to hear of your passing when you decide to inject one whole ~~weed~~ marijuana
FTFY
no president in recent years has been kind to smokers.
Won't that just make people smoke more to get their nicotine hit?
Probably but that has the side effect of additional tobacco tax money for states and the federal government. That's the key issue here and why they cracked down so hard on vaping while still allowing cigarettes to be sold at every corner store in the country.
It would still be positive for new smokers that never had the old high octane stuff.
Further, for smokers smoking more means increased costs to the smokers acting as an economic disincentive to continuing to smoke.
The FDA says the proposed rule will apply to traditional cigarettes, roll-your-own tobacco, cigars and pipe tobacco.
Argh! I've been smoking pipe tobacco this whole time to save money and avoid additives. Why not force companies to stop adding dangerous and unnecessary chemicals to their products? And if they care about people's health and the burden on the healthcare industry so much, why not try actually fixing the broken healthcare/insurance system?
I may have to try growing my own tobacco.
Under President Biden, Zeller said the White House asked him to lay out a timeline for how a nicotine rule could be finalized by the end of 2024. Zeller said he delivered the plan in one of his last acts before retiring, and was not sure why the Biden administration failed to finalize the rule.
"I would not be forwarding this timeline to you, if I didn't believe in good conscience that it could be met, as long as clearance times could be sped up," Zeller recalled telling White House officials.
Didn't stop people from giving Biden credit for accomplishing something just a few days ago...
This is the danger of giving credit before anything is done, they get the credit and quit.
You're absolutely right. Any president (or former president) claiming to have accomplished something when either someone else did it or because it's a wholly fabricated lie or something never materialized at all is a danger to democracy.
We need stronger standards for our press (and our DOJ / courts) to hold elected officials accountable. It's also on the people to be more intelligent and not believe everything they read (especially with the loss of fact checking). The lies and misinformation that have become prevalent in nearly all reporting by all media outlets over the past ~8 years is a threat to our democracy and seeds for the unraveling of the nation.
Being that the efforts to reduce nicotine from tobacco began under the Obama administration and have stalled for a variety of reasons, I would say that it's not fair for any president to claim success with this matter. This is the FDA doing its job. We should give them the 100% of the credit. And that credit given should reflect on the fact that it has taken far too long for them to reach this conclusion. Government moves too slow. Politics gets in the way of making our lives better. We really have o do a better job of paying attention and rejecting conservative (small "c") ideologies.