rant · moment 2 of 13
The Coming Cigarette Ban and Class Warfare
from #305 - Summer In America | The Tim Dillon Show · #305
3 min
He predicts a nicotine cap will effectively ban addictive cigarettes and create a black market, argues teenagers should smoke and enjoy their youth, and jokes about wanting cigarettes restricted to rich people only.
- Tim predicts a cigarette ban or major cost spike is coming to America.
- FDA plan to cap nicotine content in cigarettes will make them non-addictive by 2023.
- Black market cigarettes will emerge once the FDA restricts legitimate products.
- Smoking as a teenager and in your early twenties is cool and sexy, according to Tim.
- Tim advises smoking casually in your late teens and twenties, then quitting easily.
- Tim wrestles with supporting freedom while also wanting restrictions on poor people.
- Limiting cigarettes to wealthy people rather than poor people appeals to Tim.