Is Camel breaking the law?

[Badfish74]

Just a random thought i had today...Finding out the ingredients in American Camel "snus" is like trying ti find out the 11 herbs and spices in KFC chicken. Well they advertise the fact that there is no need to spit with their product which means that there is some ingestion involved which technically makes it a food product. If this is the the case, aren't they required by the FDA to list the ingredients? If anybody has some clarification on this issue i'd sure like to hear some input.

[lxskllr]

Tobacco isn't a food. That's how they get around listing ingredients, and also accounts for some of the quasi pharmaceuticals sold in the USA. As long as it's made with actual tobacco(not nicotine extract), it doesn't have to comply with food laws.

There's some pressure to hand tobacco control to the FDA, but I don't see any good coming out of that. While you'd find out what's in the USA tobacco products, it'll be that much closer to being listed as a drug, and then banned outright. When you get down to it, I really don't care that much about what's in the American brands :^D

[desirexe]

I probably misunderstood the news a couple weeks ago but I thought a law was just passed that did in fact give the FDA control over tobacco products.

[sagedil]

partial control. Some stuff they can do now and some stuff they still can't.

[snusjus]

I'm concerned the FDA will lower the nicotine in all tobacco products. The bill states that the FDA can regulate the amount of tar/nicotine in cigarettes and the level of nicotine in all forms of tobacco. This worries me because smokeless tobacco may have the nicotine levels cut in half or even more!

Personally, I hope the bill passes, but if the FDA plans on regulating the amount of nicotine in tobacco, then I'm opposed to it.

[HK11]

I dont understand why they would try to reduce nicotine instead of trying to reduce the amount of cancer causing agents. The FDA is half assed retarded thought so it would not surprise me. It seems to me that nicotine may have some small chance of causing cancer but no more than the list of man made chemicals in a bag of potato chips.