Big Tobacco in small trouble

I always wondered why the most dangerous things in this world were always the easiest to get your hands on. Guns, Alchohol, Cigarettes. If your gonna play with fire, sooner or later you'll get burned. Like the saying goes, everything I love is killing me.
When cigarettes first started advertising, the companies were making their product very appealing and acceptable. See an old B&W movie from the 50's, you'll actually feel how cool it was to be a teenager in that era with the cars, the music, the innocence, the cigarettes. The 1950's brought about the biggest influx this country would see for tobacco use and sales. Unexplainable, right? Maybee it was a fad?
With age comes knowledge. As the Tobacco Companies saw how much more profit they could be making by selling more, they began to come up with ideas and schemes to make an extra buck at the expense of their fellow human beings health. Being a bearer of this bad habbit, I remember when I quit once for nine months cold turkey. I remember the initial withdrawal, I remember whenever I became aggravated, upset, or even after a meal, I craved them. But Big Tobacco knew that way before anybody. The addition of addictive chemicals and ingredients in their products was a quick way to have smokers take the bait and become gauranteed customers for life.
As recent news of the senate bill being passed to increase FDA power over tobaco products, I think to myself finally, this next generation might have a chance to kick the habbit. This new bill can force the FDA to restrict tobacco advertising, require graphic health warnings, ban the claims of light and low-tar, regulate health claims, and most importantly require disclosure of the contents of tobacco products and require changes in them. Senators from Virginia, a tobacco producing state, supporting the bill. Even the tobacco producing states, we should all hope, will eventually take the same route as Virginia.
Too early yet, but maybee, just maybee, this will turn into some small trouble for Big Tobacco. Wouldn't it be great to see Big Tobacco leaders, being ordered to have a bowl full of the same ingredients they had americans put into their bodies for years upon years, such as : rat poison, rocket fuel, paint thinner & stripper, ammonia, and every other toxin.
Buon Appetit.