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Food dye bans vs. Cigarette and cigar bans?
Posted on 12/31/25 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 12/31/25 at 4:09 pm
With the push by the administration to ban food dyes and even additives, citing health risks and MAHA, why not cigarettes and cigars? Or just slap a health risk warning label on every food item that has dyes.
But it certainly could be a Pandora’s box. What’s next? Processed foods? Large sodas, which has already been done in some areas and many complained about freedom.
I see that Florida is now trying to ban paper straws at restaurants citing health risks due to certain additives in those straws.
I am all for making America healthy again. But I also support the right to eat and smoke what you want. Yes, and even sucking out of what you want.
But it certainly could be a Pandora’s box. What’s next? Processed foods? Large sodas, which has already been done in some areas and many complained about freedom.
I see that Florida is now trying to ban paper straws at restaurants citing health risks due to certain additives in those straws.
I am all for making America healthy again. But I also support the right to eat and smoke what you want. Yes, and even sucking out of what you want.
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Posted on 12/31/25 at 4:15 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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even sucking out of what you want
The skin flute you left to create this post is missing your company.
This post was edited on 12/31/25 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 12/31/25 at 4:16 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Cigarettes are a choice an adult makes. You don't go out and buy a pack of Food Dye. Food Dye is insinuated into products that are consumed by those who don't know it - and often by children.
Surely you see the difference.
Surely you see the difference.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 4:17 pm to LSUTANGERINE
You can suck what you want
Goody for you!
Goody for you!
Posted on 12/31/25 at 4:21 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Do we let kids smoke cigarettes?
Posted on 12/31/25 at 4:28 pm to Marquesa
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Cigarettes are a choice an adult makes... Food Dye is insinuated into products that are consumed by those who don't know it
And up until 1966 people didn't know smoking would increase your chances of cancer and emphysema either.
And when they found out, the solution was to put warning labels on cigarettes so that consumers could make informed choices. Not to ban the products.
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and often by children.
Hmmm...so the government is going to protect children from the legal choices of their parents? Not a good slippery slope to traverse IMO.
I'm all for informed consent. All for warning labels. Not so much for banning things, especially when the FDA is in charge of doing the banning. It might be the most corrupt government agency in the whole alphabet.
The FDA currently allows all kinds of things in food products without making the manufacturer disclose it by allowing them to list them as "spices," or "preservatives" or some other nonsense.
One could turn that back around and say that if the FDA is not competent to ban ingredients, it's also not competent to require warning labels for them, and that's probably true.
So the first thing that we need to all discuss is reforming the FDA and rooting out all the corruption. Then we can argue about dyes.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 4:28 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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Large sodas, which has already been done in some areas and many complained about freedom.
Because this is stupid. You aren’t banning soda. You are just saying that you can’t have a certain amount from a restaurant. You could still go to a grocery store and buy a 2 liter and drink the whole thing if you wanted. There was nothing that would have stopped someone from just buying 2 sodas if they wanted.
Also it was never enacted in NYC. The courts overturned it.
This post was edited on 12/31/25 at 4:31 pm
Posted on 12/31/25 at 4:40 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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With the push by the administration to ban food dyes and even additives, citing health risks and MAHA, why not cigarettes and cigars? Or just slap a health risk warning label on every food item that has dyes.
Cigarettes and cigars have pretty much been banned in all public settings, and they are a singular item. They are easy to avoid and restricted by age.
Food dyes are put in all kinds of different foods. They are much harder to avoid and serve no real purpose.
And is this really a "freedom" being taken away from you? Your food will be healthier, but not as colorful. Is this a trade-off people are really against? You only oppose it because Trump is doing it.
It is really a retarded argument, especially when these companies already have versions of these foods without the dyes being distributed in foreign countries that have already banned them.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 4:43 pm to Marquesa
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You don't go out and buy a pack of Food Dye.
bullshite. I've been mainlining that shite since 2007. Blue is my favorite flavor.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 5:14 pm to LSUTANGERINE
I want healthier foods but I also don’t want the government telling private businesses what they cannot use. We are supposed to have freedom.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 5:20 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Some of these responses are so stupid that I'm going to attribute them to trolling rather than think that someone had such deficit in logic and reasoning.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 5:22 pm to Marquesa
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Cigarettes are a choice an adult makes. You don't go out and buy a pack of Food Dye. Food Dye is insinuated into products that are consumed by those who don't know it - and often by children
Then why not just slap a warning label on it like I suggested. The admin is looking to ban food dyes AND maybe ADDITIVES in virtually all food, not just candies and Froot Loops.
This post was edited on 12/31/25 at 5:25 pm
Posted on 12/31/25 at 5:23 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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cigar bans
No. Cigars aren't big cigarettes.
Stay the fokk away from my cigars.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 5:29 pm to Nurbis
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You only oppose it because Trump is doing it.
Wrong. I was supposed to the attempted ban of large sodas and extra large fries or whatever in New York City. I am opposed to restrictions on freedom.
I would be fine with fruity pebbles having two versions, one with dyes and one without.
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Your food will be healthier, but not as colorful. Is this a trade-off people are really against?
Why not just go all in and ban candy?
I am just saying it’s potentially a Pandora’s box.
This post was edited on 12/31/25 at 5:31 pm
Posted on 12/31/25 at 10:00 pm to wackatimesthree
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And up until 1966 people didn't know smoking would increase your chances of cancer and emphysema either.
And when they found out, the solution was to put warning labels on cigarettes so that consumers could make informed choices. Not to ban the products.
Along with warning labels, they:
Banned all cartoon mascots
Restricted ads to magazines
Banned smoking in public places
Increased taxes on tobacco
Put an age restriction
Banned flavored cigarettes
Louisiana even bans tobacco-flavored vapes.
They did a lot more than just add warning labels to an adult product not required to survive.
Food is more vital than tobacco, and thus, more worthy of regulation. I think most would agree.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 10:13 pm to LSUTANGERINE
We really have come full circle with the left. In 2003 you were obsessed with Supersize Me and banning big gulp drinks and now you are simping for junk food to own MAGA.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 10:32 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Shall we restrict purchasing food with food dyes for those over 18 (or 21 in some states) too?
Why stop there? We should stop filtering our drinking water and add corrosive chemicals to it too, right? After all, per your (retarded) logic, people can just choose to consume to corrosive water or not.
Let’s cut our wheat supply that turns into bread with heroin too. If you don’t like heroin, just don’t eat bread. It’s really that simple.
Why stop there? We should stop filtering our drinking water and add corrosive chemicals to it too, right? After all, per your (retarded) logic, people can just choose to consume to corrosive water or not.
Let’s cut our wheat supply that turns into bread with heroin too. If you don’t like heroin, just don’t eat bread. It’s really that simple.
This post was edited on 12/31/25 at 10:35 pm
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