“Kids today don’t just start smoking for no reason,” he said. “They’re aggressively targeted as customers by the tobacco industry. They’re exposed to a constant and insidious barrage of advertising where they live, where they learn and where they play.” - Obama.

A few friends smoke some fruit tobacco through a hookah while having a solid conversation. A typical ‘hookah session’ lasts anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour & a half. When your ’session’ begins to die down you either put a new hookah ‘coal’ on your hookah or you can refill the hookah ‘bowl’ with new flavored fruit tobacco; AKA: Shisha. You sometimes may get a ‘nicotine buzz’ & then the ‘buzz’ calms down into an overall comfortable, relaxes feeling. Not a noticeable difference nor does it impair you from anything. Hookah is meant for relaxation & socialization… which as you can see from the picture below, that is definitely what hookah is being used for.

The new law, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, allows the Food and Drug Administration not only to forbid advertising geared toward children but also to lower the amount of nicotine in tobacco products, ban sweetened cigarettes that appeal to young taste buds and prohibit labels like “light” and “low tar.”

With this new law this could potentially close the thousands of hookah bars currently existing in the united states. This law may potentially BAN flavored cigars, flavored pipe tobacco & WILL ban flavored cigarettes (such as those tasty clove ones).

Thank the Lord for Obama & our Government! I don’t know if I would be able to control myself without them! Luckily I don’t have to purchase any ‘flavored’ tobacco anymore. Now I get to purchase tobacco with even more chemicals & stay addicted. But I will more than likely be smoking a ‘Marlboro’ or ‘Camel’ brand… Kind of odd how I went from a small ‘mom&pop’ brand to Marlboro ( the most popular brand of cigarette in the United States ).It is almost as if the Government is SOMEHOW making this happen! Nah, can’t be!

President Obama signs the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act at the White House on Monday. At right is 9-year-old Sarah Louise Wiggins, with the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids.

This new law will definitely make the ‘pleasures’ of smoking much less of a ‘pleasure’. But what about those 50-70 year old men who smoke flavored tobacco out of their pipes as a hobby? The ’side effects’ are nowhere near that of a cigarette . The 18-25 year old college student who smokes a bowl of fruit tobacco after a hard day of studying for school? The 18-25 year olds who smoke hookah as an ‘anti-drug’ because they love smoking but don’t WANT to do anything illegal? The cigar shops!!? Sure a good half of a typical cigar shops’ products are not commercially flavored tobacco… But 75% of their profit comes FROM flavored tobacco products (such as Shisha, Black & Milds, Swishers, Tobacco Blunt Wraps, etc.)

When there is SOME type of a market for a product that isn’t illegal, is enjoyable & is not required to be used (meaning it is the people’s choice to use this product) why take it away!? Isn’t our economy bad enough?

Just to spite the Government:

Here is a few free mp3’s. :).

Vampire Weekend - M79

Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma

Of Montreal - For Our Elegant Caste

White Lies - Death ( Crystal Castles Remix)

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