More National Socialist absurdity...USA style

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125374722116935697.html

I see the day when cigars will be a thing of the past, or so absurdly expensive that only the rich will be able to smoke them. Even those that don't smoke flavored cigars or anything else for that matter should nonetheless be horrified at the socialist thinking that would ban a legal product on the grounds that an existing law covering it (age restriction) is being broken. The banning of products also equals:

loss of profit

which equals:

loss of jobs


All in the name of rescuing us from ourselves, and exactly what we need in this shitty economy. It's like banning cars because some people drive drunk. They came for the Jews and I said nothing because I was not a Jew.....

It is only a matter of time before the FDA says that there is no difference between cigars and cigarettes, and those companies which make both regular cigars and flavors will have to make up the profit loss by raising prices once again. This is a slippery slope that will end with the total prohibition of tobacco products, mark my words. Beyond clove cigarettes, menthols, and some of the Nat Sherman ones that are way too expensive to appeal to the underage, I can't even name one flavored cigarette. Not one, and I've been smoking for 30 years. The pretext of this ban is entirely false.

The dear nanny state is taking care of us helpless little children once again; the lie is simply the spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. A stepping stone to greater and greater restrictions. Shame the FDA sucks so miserably at what is supposed to be their primary function - making sure our food is safe.

Ironically when I see stuff like this I want to smoke more to hasten my demise as much as possible. I see the future, and it ain't pretty. I think about the absurdly over-regulated, baby-ass country my children will inherit, and I feel ashamed. I was always under the impression that the government answered to US, not the other way around.