children in America are not smoking handmade cigars

amigodecigars · 04/26/2017 08:29 AM

A study published by The New England Journal of Medicine and partially funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows that children in America are not smoking handmade cigars. Although the FDA was one of the organizations funding the study, a release about the findings does not appear in the tobacco section of the FDA's website, and the findings received little press coverage. You can read the complete article here; http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/fda-funded-study-confirms-children-do-not-smoke-premium-cigars-19368

shakinghorizons · 04/26/2017 09:52 AM

I would hope not!

Deener27 · 04/26/2017 01:53 PM

I remember trying one when I was young and thinking that it tasted like garbage. It wasn't until I was much older that I started enjoying them when I had the free time and spare funds.

Jackal · 04/26/2017 02:53 PM

I wonder how much that study cost the taxpayers.

I will save them time on their next two studies. Water is wet and Fire is hot.

Beegerply · 04/26/2017 03:32 PM

QuoteJackal - 4/26/2017 5:53 PM

I wonder how much that study cost the taxpayers.

I will save them time on their next two studies. Water is wet and Fire is hot.

I don't care who you are that was funny Jason

jagfandaddy · 04/26/2017 03:47 PM

No matter the study, it's tobacco and it's bad for you. That is the way it will always be perceived.

shakinghorizons · 04/26/2017 05:36 PM

QuoteJackal - 4/26/2017 1:53 PM

I wonder how much that study cost the taxpayers.

I will save them time on their next two studies. Water is wet and Fire is hot.

They'll need at least 3 years and 2500 people to confirm.

prican_2000 · 04/26/2017 05:44 PM

QuoteJackal - 4/26/2017 3:53 PM

I wonder how much that study cost the taxpayers.

I will save them time on their next two studies. Water is wet and Fire is hot.

Thats "EXACTLY" what I was thinking.

bstessl · 04/26/2017 06:58 PM

I think the study is more for FDA restrictions on premium cigars, but they did not get the answer they were looking for.

MacMac · 04/27/2017 06:59 AM

The fight is defiantly up-hill, but there are some good people on the side of craft cigars...maybe, just maybe, stupidity will not prevail.

Dave S. · 04/27/2017 10:41 AM

QuoteMacMac - 4/27/2017 7:59 AM

The fight is defiantly up-hill, but there are some good people on the side of craft cigars...maybe, just maybe, stupidity will not prevail.

In the end, stupidity always prevails.

amigodecigars · 04/27/2017 01:02 PM

Earlier this morning, Dr. Scott Gottlieb was confirmed by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee 14-9 to be the next commissioner of U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). In 2012 he wrote, "For example, that 2009 tobacco law was crafted as a way to cut down on underage use of cigarettes. It was, in many respects, a forward-looking measure — envisioning that traditional cigarette makers would gradually transition to developing and marketing smokeless-tobacco products that don’t pose the same health hazards as cigarettes.

But the FDA has been loath to accept that alternative tobacco products could pose a lower health risk than cigarettes. Under the law, it should be examining the relative hazards, rather than spending its energies seeking to expand its powers."

MacMac · 04/28/2017 08:50 PM

Quoteamigodecigars - 4/27/2017 5:02 PM

Earlier this morning, Dr. Scott Gottlieb was confirmed by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee 14-9 to be the next commissioner of U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). In 2012 he wrote, "For example, that 2009 tobacco law was crafted as a way to cut down on underage use of cigarettes. It was, in many respects, a forward-looking measure — envisioning that traditional cigarette makers would gradually transition to developing and marketing smokeless-tobacco products that don't pose the same health hazards as cigarettes.
But the FDA has been loath to accept that alternative tobacco products could pose a lower health risk than cigarettes. Under the law, it should be examining the relative hazards, rather than spending its energies seeking to expand its powers."

AMEN to that!!

calvarez · 05/01/2017 09:32 PM

My neighborhood is full of kids, guess I need to do my part and go give them all cigars.