well wasn't just the POS president, thank PM.of course marlboro won't be touch because they fund the POS president and supply him his marlboro lights. oh damn i mean (marlboro golds).also the POS president is doing the ban for the benefit of him and saying fuck you to our constitution. which states that a president can't pass a law for the greater good or benefit of himself.as well as him to say it it entices kids to smoke, haha what a fucking hypocrite. holding a pack of marlboro smokes while filmed on tv real message to the kids of America.the fact is only 1% of Americans smoke cloves anyway.to those that complain about second hand smoke you might want to look all the smog you breath in everyday and the car exhaust. and the chemicals you get in in your food from hormone injections.to speak of litter form smokers i see non smokers constantly through fast food shit out the windows.wait how about the alcoholics driving and kill non alcoholics everyday.Or maybe the people eating to much fast food and getting fat and taking up my seat as well as theirs on a airplane, or over eating and dieing. hey those welfare people eating up our tax dollars for not working and popping out babies.those illegal immigrants are doing a good job on our health care system too. so wake the hell up. Clove cigarettes are minor infliction to this country.

I didn't start smoking because I wanted a cherry flavored cigarette!! I started smoking because my juvenile delinquent sister hid cartons of cigs under her bed. I thought she was the coolest girl ever & idolized everything she did. I was 13. She was 19. I also stole her spandex bicycle shorts and wore them to school periodically. And I used to steal her makeup and put it on every day as I rode the school bus. My fav was the sea-foam green eyeshadow. Later that year when she got pregnant out of wedlock, I shifted my idolization to the juvenile delinquent girl next door. She had a real Barbie Townhouse...and a Ken doll. My mom never bought me a Ken doll. Only Barbies. The girl next door & I found out that neither her mom nor her mom's live-in lesbian lover cared much if a pack or two was missing from their cartons. Life was good.

Now I'm a broke actor in NYC! I have 3 college degrees in nothing that will pay me a living wage. My life rocks! I fail to see how juvenile smoking did me any harm. It only helped me see through the man's bullsh** at a very young age. Although I love NYC, if it gets much worse I'm moving to Charlotte, NC. Big Tobacco is still king there. You can still smoke inside. I have seen smokers nearly weep at this realization. Its a smokers wonderland!!

Some things don't change...

Insane. Fuck you Bloomberg and the NY City Council.

Wow - what is next? The government bans fruit-flavored alcohol because teenagers are using it? Tobacco is LEGAL. What a joke. This seriously angers me. And has been pointed out above, this was the FDA that did this.

http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/FlavoredTobacco/default.htm

"Any company who continues to make, ship or sell such products may be subject to FDA enforcement actions."

This is the erosion of your freedoms unfolding before your eyes. After this, the next legislation will be for issuing tickets to people who are smoking cloves since they obviously obtained them via illegal means. Then, the FDA will step up the regulation of tobacco, and the only cigarettes available will be issued by the government.

In other words, this is one of the many first small steps in a total tobacco prohibition.

Nonsense. Stupid.

First I hate Bloomie.

I'm pretty sure an insurance co. has the right to charge higher premiums to people that smoke. They can probably refuse to insure a smoker all together.

I do not like the idea of anyone telling me what to do with my body.

Be it freedom of choice for women, getting a vaccine, drinking or smoking- who the hell do they think they are?

When the constitution was writ people had firearms to defend their rights.

Now the qualities of life that are lacking in New York are being ignored while stupidity prevails.

I just can't make any connection with Bloomie's ideas and my (lower middle class) benefit.

A woman said we can't afford Thompson because Bloomie only gets $1 a year salary.

Well, I did not get my dollars worth.

yeah. cloves illegal. but i can still smoke a joint in the middle of the afternoon on st. marks without getting so much as a sideways glance.

'land of the free,' people.

gonna have to start having those Grape Swishers shipped from TX.

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

And goth kids throughout the City weep.

The menthol cigarettes (yes it's flavored!) has been documented to be much worse for you than a normal cigarette and definitely a cherry flavored one, too. But we might have LA-style riots if we banned those.

Obama is a hypocrite lol, he smokes.

The Food and Drug Administration said this morning that it is, effective immediately, banning cigarettes with fruit, candy or clove flavors because they lure adolescents into smoking. "Almost 90% of adult smokers start smoking as teenagers. These flavored cigarettes are a gateway for many children and young adults to become regular smokers," said FDA commissioner Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg. Studies have shown that 17-year-old smokers are three times as likely to use flavored cigarettes as those over the age of 25.

In June, President Obama signed into law a bill that would allow the FDA to regulate tobacco, although it cannot ban tobacco or smoking outright. The agency is now considering measures to regulate menthol cigarettes and flavored tobacco products other than cigarettes.

The FDA sent a letter to tobacco companies last week outlining its plans. The letter said that any company that continues to make, ship or sell flavored cigarettes will be subject to FDA enforcement action.

The agency urged parents and others to report continued sales of flavored cigarettes through a special tobacco hotline by phone ([877] CTP-1373) or on the Internet (www.fda.gov/flavoredtobacco).

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/09/fda-bans-flavored-cigarettes.html

The Indonesian government is considering filing a complaint with the WTO over the clove ban because it impacts their farmers and because menthol wasn't included in the ban which suggests an unfair trade practice favoring US tobacco makers.

the mayor didn't start it obama did. let me find the article.

Bloomberg was an anti-smoking crusade back when Obama was a nobody in the state senate voting "present" when he bothered to show up at all.

This is where Bloomberg loses me; when he goes on one of his nanny state jihads.

If he instead had just signed a bill that would have graffiti vandals flogged in Times Sq, he'd get a fourth and fifth term too.

very excessive. does this include wine flavored black & milds?

Wine flavored?! I've been living under a rock!