{"id":1984759,"date":"2023-07-28T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T04:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-the-biden-administration-ban-cigars\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T00:02:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T04:02:42","slug":"will-the-biden-administration-ban-cigars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-the-biden-administration-ban-cigars\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there a cigar ban under the Biden administration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwill-the-biden-administration-ban-cigars%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1984759&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>What&#8217;s with the Left&#8217;s Obsession with Banning Everything?<\/h2>\n<p>Gas stoves, dishwashers, plastic straws, gas cars, snowmobiles, diving boards, and \u200dnow \u2062certain cigars. It seems like the Left wants to ban nearly \u200beverything that is fun or convenient. Recently, a gang of senators led by Jeff Merkley (D-OR) wrote a letter to Food \u2063and Drug\u2062 Administration Commissioner \u2063Robert Califf urging the agency to ban (or heavily regulate) flavored cigar sales. Under pressure \u2062from the health\u2064 lobby, the FDA\u2019s Center for Tobacco Products \u2064said it&#8217;s primed to take\u2062 action in the weeks ahead. They claim that underage teenagers are smoking these\u200c cigars\u2064 and are at risk \u2062of becoming addicted.<\/p>\n<h3>Does \u2062this Ban Make \u2062Any Sense?<\/h3>\n<p>This makes as much \u200dsense as banning scotch because kids\u2062 might\u200d smuggle a bottle from dad\u2019s liquor cabinet or outlawing R-rated movies because sometimes 14-year-olds occasionally sneak into the theater. In 2009, Congress and President Barack Obama enacted \u200bthe Family Smoking Prevention and \u2063Tobacco \u2062Control Act to give the federal \u200dgovernment the \u2063tools it needs to keep cigarettes, vapes, and other addictive tobacco substances \u2064out of our children\u2019s hands. Now, however, the FDA is using this authority to advance its political \u2062agenda in ways that exceed the\u2064 original intent and purpose of\u2064 the \u2062legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The notion\u200d that the\u2064 FDA needs to\u2062 act to stop teenagers from smoking flavored cigars is simply not true. Youth smoking of cigars, including flavored cigars, has plummeted to historic lows over the years. The FDA should know these statistics because they were \u200dthe ones who\u200d funded the definitive study\u2062 published by the New\u200c England Journal of Medicine. This study analyzed\u2064 the tobacco use of 13,651 children, ranging in age from 12 to 17\u2063 years, and the data show that only 2.3% had ever smoked a\u2064 traditional \u200bcigar, and less than 1% (0.7%) had tried one within the\u2062 past 30 days. That\u2019s hardly an epidemic of cigar-smoking \u2063youngsters.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-dissidents-slam-nominee-for-top-defense-post\/\" title=\"Iranian Dissidents Slam Nominee for Top Defense Post\">federal judge ruled<\/a> the FDA\u2019s decision to try to regulate premium cigars was\u2064 \u201carbitrary and capricious\u201d because the agency failed \u200bto acknowledge data that these products are not \u2064used by youth\u200b and, due to their usage patterns, have\u200d very\u2063 different health risks. This verdict from the court, questioning the scientific \u200bbasis of the FDA\u2019s actions, makes the agency\u2019s insistence on \u200dfinalizing its flavored\u2063 cigar rule by the fall even more \u200cquestionable.<\/p>\n<h3>Regulatory Overreach and Broken Promises<\/h3>\n<p>What \u200dis clear is we have here a case of regulatory overreach\u2063 by a nonelected federal bureau. Back in 2009, opponents of \u200cthe new law warned that the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act would become \u2062a slippery slope \u2062toward bans on smoking products even for adults. The bill&#8217;s\u200d advocates promised\u200d on\u200b a stack of Bibles that the law wouldn\u2019t interfere with adults\u2019 freedom to choose;\u2063 rather, it would merely keep minors from smoking. We now learn that this was \u2062a classic bait-and-switch move \u200cby the anti-smoking brigades. The anti-smoking lobby in Congress assigned new powers to regulators and \u2062the advocates all along, knowing this day of \u2062a ban would be coming.<\/p>\n<p>I should \u2063say that I don&#8217;t smoke \u2014 except on\u200d very\u200c rare\u2062 occasions, such as at a wedding. But even if you hate cigars or smoking in general,\u2063 we should all recognize the danger \u2063here of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-the-biden-administration-ban-cigars\/\" title=\"Is there a cigar ban under the Biden administration?\">letting unelected bureaucrats make<\/a> these \u200ddecisions. Who \u200bare they accountable to? If Congress wants to ban vaping, \u2063smoking, or certain types of cigars, they should vote on it. I suspect \u200cthat few\u2063 members of \u200cCongress would \u200ddare vote \u2064to outlaw cigars. It would create such a backlash from people \u2063who enjoy smoking\u2063 that many in Congress would be tossed out of office.<\/p>\n<h3>The Real Health \u2063Hazard Ignored<\/h3>\n<p>What is doubly ironic and hypocritical here is \u2064that the real \u2062health hazard to America\u2019s youth is \u200dthe proliferation of psychedelic drugs \u2014 from fentanyl to opioids to cocaine. Abuse of these toxic drugs has \u200dmade\u2062 drug overdoses a \u200bleading cause \u200dof death for Americans under 18.\u200c What\u2062 is\u200c Congress\u2019s reaction to that genuine killer epidemic? Not a thing? They do nothing to stop the drug runners from crossing \u2063the border with their addictive and dangerous\u2062 arsenal. They slap the wrists \u200cof the offenders when they are caught. Where is\u2062 the FDA\u2019s campaign to stop the killing? Smoking flavored cigars aren\u2019t good for our children, but\u200c they don\u2019t turn our children into zombies or corpses.<\/p>\n<p>If the FDA wants\u2064 to improve public health, it could save tens of thousands \u200cof lives by speeding up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/to-eradicate-aids-dems-can-learn-a-lot-from-republican-presidents\/\" title=\"To Eradicate AIDS, Dems Can Learn a Lot from Republican Presidents\">drug approval process<\/a>\u2064 so we can win the race to cure cancer,\u2064 heart disease, epilepsy, and diabetes. Let parents\u200c regulate what their teenagers are doing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/op-eds\/what-is-it-with-the-left-and-banning-everything\">CLICK HERE TO READ \u200dMORE FROM THE WASHINGTON\u200b EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s up with the Left&#8217;s obsession to ban all things enjoyable or convenient? They target gas stoves, dishwashers, plastic straws, gas cars, snowmobiles, diving boards, and now even certain cigars. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and a group of senators penned a letter to Food and Drug Administration, pushing for a ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1984760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}