Getting Tough on Tobacco

One of the more interesting elements of health and politics happens to be tobacco. This product means big bucks for the states where tobacco is grown, and even bigger bucks for the companies which produce cigarettes…

New legislation could become law that could very well affect the tobacco industry, as we see inthis article from UKmedix News…

Written by Richard Simmons | Wednesday, 03 June 2009 |

“as many as 4,000 children every single day are ensnared by tobacco”

President Barack Obama has given his approval to an American Senate bill which would give new powers to the Food & Drug Administration to control the tobacco industry in America. The new rules would allow them to step in and regulate the advertising, manufacturing and even the packaging of all cigarettes and tobacco products which would give them an unprecedented amount of control. The argument is that since tobacco causes so many smoking related illnesses it is only fair that it is properly regulated by the health authorities in America. It is estimated that around 400,000 American people are killed every year as a result of tobacco.

Some of the tobacco companies have even given their backing to the bill and said that they are happy to cooperate, whereas others have said that it is unfair. President Obama is the first American president for some time who has actually admitted that he struggles to keep away from cigarettes and that quitting for him was a big battle. Many other health organisations in America such as the American Cancer Society have given the bill their full support and are hoping that it will be enacted into the laws of America.

The Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd said that as many as 4,000 children every single day are “ensnared by tobacco” and that this bill should help lower the numbers who become addicted and then go on to develop smoking related illnesses which often kill them.

Interestingly the Congressional Budget Office estimated that this new bill could save the American people $900 million over ten years because of the impact that it would have in reducing smoking related health care costs. As Ukmedix News from the evidence we have seen we believe that smoking causes far more financial damage to nations then is usually appreciated.

Smoking is arguably the most addictive habit there is and at Ukmedix News we know that many people need help to quit, but we also know that it is not impossible to do it.