The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (H.R. 1256)

I feel for the anti-smoking peeps.

Everyone agrees that cigarettes are bad for you, there is no argument there.

They don't taste good (when you start).

They don't give you a fun buzz.

So why do people still smoke?

They only reason they can think of is that they start when they are young and then have a hard time giving it up. (No real disagreement about this anywhere either)

So how do you stop teenagers from starting to smoke. Good question, it can mostly be shortened to "how do you make a teenager do anything"? An no one has a good answer to that question!

Some of my friends are a little zomg about HR 1256.

I don't blame them, really. HR 1256 is a wacky-ass bill.

But when you have wacky-ass problem like smoking this sort of thing is bound to come up.

I think smoking regulation is still moving in the right direction, some of the particulars are puzzling to me, but the overall direction still looks good to me.