The Biden administration is in its waning days, but he is not letting up on his breathtaking levels of social authoritarianism. It's not bad enough that the average age of the young people who put men on the moon and World War II are no longer adult enough to be off mommy's health insurance, he has now declared that if they buy pipe tobacco they are at risk for cancer. Or becoming a hobbit.
So if you are under age 30, get ready to show ID. It is federal law and one more thing store clerks have to obey government about.
Cigarettes have been in decline for decades and those are the killer but government needs new things to protect people against, so they manufactured a vaping epidemic and alleged that it wasn't for smoking cessation or harm reduction at all, it was seduction of the innocent.
Because nicotine is addictive.
Well, so what? It can't harm you at normal levels. The only person who tried to kill themselves with nicotine took 300X the LD50 amount and only got jittery. Smoking kills. Not nicotine. The only deaths attributable to vaping are because the government got ban happy and told 10,000 products without enough revenue to go through FDA bureaucracy, totaling from 100 million to $1.5 billion, so some people made their own nicotine vape juice heaters and they blew up. Bans did that, more companies allowed into a space prevent it.
Caffeine is addictive and I'd rather my kid puff on a dorky looking vape thing than drink a Red Bull. Let's not even get started on the real killer still out there, alcohol.
Worse, because the Obama/Biden administration invented a nicotine problem, they found they had to include cigars and pipes, which also can't kill you. Epidemiologists hoping to get expert witness contracts in a new lawsuit against "Big Tobacco" certainly correlated those to "harm" and they can do it as long as they ignore every other confounder. The same way I can correlate Dr. Who viewing to pollution in Mississippi.
This is among the few things the Biden administration has not tried to use an agency and Chevron Deference to micromanage. Luckily for us all, he abused it so badly the Supreme Court finally overturned that steaming pile of bad law after 40 years. Now I regret putting the idea that Doctor Who brings air pollution into the heads of Biden staffers. I love that show.
Do you believe it? Probably not, yet a lot of people reflexively believe that nicotine, rather than smoking, is the problem. Yet where are the calls to eliminate the actual carcinogenic, addictive flavored chemical that is instead a huge source of donations for political parties?
That flavored, addictive carcinogen is named alcohol.
Look for the "Joy" campaign including how many virtual hobbits they prevented with this bold new FDA action.
