Candy-Like Tobacco Products: Poisoning Is Not the Only Risk

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Of course smoking is bad for you!!
Flavored smoking tobacco is enjoyable to ANY smoker, most of you have probably never touched a cigarette but I know that flavored cigars/cigarettes are far too bitter and harsh for any kid to ever enjoy.
Also, smoking is being stigmatized by special interest groups and you people are falling for it.
do your own research instead of blindly following the rabbling crowd.
How many people do you know who have died from second hand smoke that didn't have any VERY serious medical conditions, and be honest.
As for smokeless tobacco products, that is a direct result of aforementioned stigmatization, big tobacco is using it as a tool to make these "candy-like" tobacco products and sell it to children, the excuse? "well smoking is illegal everywhere so why not make smokeless tobacco?" "Why not make it taste Delicious while we're at it?" I don't really know much about these to know if they're actually good or not but seriously you're HELPING the tobacco companies sell their products to children at this point, it's kind of ironic.
The best way to lose an argument is to overstate it and anti-tobacco definitely has.
If everyone just ignored smoking the last smokers would die off and it would be forgotten.

Jesus of AZ 2:10AM September 22, 2010

Tobacco use caused both my parents to die very young & they both suffered a long drawn out, painful death & for what? So you can have a mansion, yacht & luxury accomidations at your feet. Now you want to add young people to your target list? I will help spread the evil word about tobacco & hopefully it will end your reign.
How dare tobacco pushers do this.

Mariann of CA 7:33PM April 26, 2010

Nicotine Kills.
You promote the use of nicotine.
You promote killing people.
Try to avoid nonsense excuses and focus on the simple facts.
You kill people. Stop.

Milo2971 of TN 8:08PM April 25, 2010

There is a special place in lowest bowels of Hell for tobacco execs who defend the marketing of their product to anyone, knowing it is a deadly addiction and the reason for marketing at all is to attract new customers to your product. Would we market heroin? Meth? I'd like to say "No, of course not!", but I'm not so sure any more.
Then the argument would be, "Our meth isn't as strong as their meth, so our meth is good meth." Or, just because we make our meth look like skittles doesn't mean we're trying to attract children.
These people are the slime referred to in the saying, "He'd kill his own mother for a nickel." Apparently he'd kill his own kids, too. Pathetic.
From the lung cancer capital of the world...

Pee Oh'd of NC 6:27AM April 23, 2010

There's a special place in Hell for people that sell products and run corporations that turn children into addicts.

Action Jackson of OH 5:34PM April 22, 2010

I am David Howard, director of communications for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, maker of Camel dissolvable tobacco products. The article is completely inaccurate in its reference to smokeless tobacco products - not all smokeless products are Camel Orbs. There are numerous smokeless tobacco products currently on the market. Also, it's important to note that Camel Orbs weren't even on the market during the years that were analyze in the article in Pediatrics (2006-2008). We introduced Camel dissolvable tobacco products in three lead markets in the first quarter of 2009. Also, the article in Pediatrics was remarkably selective in its focus. Any analysis of nicotine ingestion and poisoning should include all potential household sources of nicotine products. Yet notably absent from the paper was any mention of the potential accidental ingestion of Nicotine Replacement Thereapies (NRT), which are regulated and approved by the FDA. NRT tablets and gums contain as much as two to four times the amount of nicotine as a Camel Orb and come in such flavors as Cherry, Fruit Chill and Cinnamon Surge. Additionally, the article makes no mention that dissolvable tobacco products have been on the market for several years - Ariva in 2001 and Stonewall Hard Snuff in 2003. Ariva contains 50 percent more nicotine than Camel Orbs, Stonewall contains four times more nicotine than Camel Orbs, and these products are available nationwide. Certainly, adult tobacco consumers should be diligent in ensuring that children do not have access to any tobacco product, including dissolvable tobacco products. Attached is a link to my company's full statement of response regarding the artcile - http://www.rjrt.com/uploadedFiles/Content/Global/ResponsetoPediatricsJournalonAccidentalIngestion.pdf

David Howard of NC 11:35AM April 22, 2010

Why don't I ever hear about candy companies getting raked over the coals for producing candy that resembles packs of cigarettes, chewing tobacco, cigars.... They are still in production and available at candy stores. Talk about turning kids toward tobacco!
I'm not a tobacco user and wouldn't let me children buy those kinds of candies.
I think we need to be addressing both industries.

NM2NC of OH 9:33AM April 22, 2010

happen to be corporations with lobbying and marketing budgets, it's hard to keep them under control. Dealing with them is a lot like "whack-a-mole". You whack 'em and they pop up somewhere else. Keep whackin'. It's all you can do.

Muser of NM 4:32PM April 21, 2010