FDA Bans Flavored Cigarettes
By: Allison Morrison
Updated: September 22, 2009
Tobacco is once again making headlines.
This time it's a ban on flavored cigarettes and local smoke shops say it's hurting their business.
Effective Tuesday, the FDA placed a ban on candy and fruit-flavored cigarettes.
It's part of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act that hopes to reduce the number of children who start smoking.
Local smoke shops like Nothin' Butt Smokes say this ban is another hard hit to the tobacco industry.
"From here on out, we've just got to roll with the punches and unfortunately, we're always the ones taking the hit, so we just try to come out ahead whenever possible," Nothin' Butt Smokes' Michele Casanova says.
The FDA is also looking in to regulating menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products.
