Flavored Smoke

According to ABC News on September 22, 2009, a new law banned the sale of flavored tobacco. It sure does not seem like it has went into effect though. I still see flavored cigarettes being sold at the drive-thrus and gas stations. In the summer of 2009, the FDA was cracking down the the sale of flavored tobacco that health officials believed was targeting the children. A letter was sent out to various tobacco companies giving them an initial warning that if they were to "continue to make, distribute or sell flavored cigarettes in violation of the law." The ban had even the border agents blocking the income of imported flavored tobacco and/or cigarettes.

FDA's head of its' new Center for Tobacco Products beleves that tobacco companies are producting flavored cigarettesbecause they aare favored by teens. "Studies show that 17-year-old smokers are three times as likely to use flavored cigarettes as smokers over the age of 25," Deyton said.

The law stated that the tobacco companies with be required ro register with the FDA. Ans as for Deyton he said that the agnecy will soon require the tobacco companies with have to release the information concerning the "constituent components of tobacco products," which is now leading the FDA to consult with the CDC to investigate the safety of those ingredients.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/QuitToLive/law-bans-sale-flavored-cigarettes/story?id=8640262&page=2