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From Fox News: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving forward with a regulatory rule in the final days of the Biden administration that would effectively ban cigarettes currently on the market in favor of products with lower nicotine levels, which could end up boosting business for cartels operating on the black market, an expert tells Fox News Digital.
“Biden’s ban is a gift with a bow and balloons to organized crime cartels with it, whether it’s cartels, Chinese organized crime, or Russian mafia. It’s going to keep America smoking, and it’s going to make the streets more violent,” Rich Marianos, former assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the current chair of the Tobacco Law Enforcement Network, told Fox News Digital of the proposal.
The FDA confirmed to Fox Digital on Monday that as of Jan. 3, the Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Level of Certain Tobacco Products had completed a regulatory review, but that the proposed rule has not yet been finalized.
“The proposed rule, ‘Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Level of Certain Tobacco Products,’ is displaying in the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) ROCIS system as having completed regulatory review on January 3,” an FDA spokesman told Fox Digital. “As the FDA has previously said, a proposed product standard to establish a maximum nicotine level to reduce the addictiveness of cigarettes and certain other combusted tobacco products, when finalized, is estimated to be among the most impactful population-level actions in the history of U.S. tobacco product regulation. At this time, the FDA cannot provide any further comment until it is published.”
Marianos argued that a ban would only create an economic boom for criminals, as the Mexican cartels are well-positioned to bring illegal tobacco across the border, just as they do with fentanyl and other deadly drugs.
I’m not a smoker or a nicotine user but it is insane the level of forced social control that the Biden admin is trying to exert. Now they want to ban cigarettes altogether.
LET PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES.
The Democrats drove away a huge amount of people for this exact reason. pic.twitter.com/wK3yKoqtZa
— Ty’s Tough Talk🇺🇸🏳️🌈 (@toughtalkty) January 7, 2025
A shocking video found on social media, which was posted 5 years ago, is allegedly a set of lungs from a 52-year-old man who smoke for 30 years.
Chen Jingyu Lung Transplantation Team received a brain death donation for the lung, the donor was 52 years old, After smoking for nearly 30 years, mild emphysema, bullae and calcification of tuberculosis were observed in the lung dust. Many smokers China have the same lung pic.twitter.com/Lbm1oQd2EU
— sara khan (@sskhan19310212) November 15, 2019
Biden admin working to effectively ban cigarettes in 11th hour proposal a ‘gift’ to cartels, expert says https://t.co/yNOLZbOlcX
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 7, 2025
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