Editor’s Note: See Yo, FDA, the Manufacturing Costs for Illicit Tobacco Products are Very Low.
From: Reason
FDA’s Low-Nicotine Cigarette Scheme Is an Invitation to Black Market Vendors
People will find sources for what they want no matter what presumptuous regulators say.
Technically, the Food and Drug Administration’s new proposal“to lower nicotine in cigarettes to minimally or non-addictive levels” isn’t an exercise in prohibition. Cigarettes would still remain available—but they wouldn’t be the product that smokers had in mind. Instead, they’d be a substitute foisted on them by their self-identified betters.
This sort of not-quite prohibition isn’t new, and it’s guaranteed to have very familiar consequences.
