Mays sends this link about the pleasure police trying to ban flavored smokes. Reynolds American spokesman Fred McConnell points out that "ingredients like cocoa, sugar, licorice and menthol have been used in cigarettes for 100 years", but that doesn't stop the tobacco nazis from claiming that they need to be banned for the children.

Congress is considering a bill to prohibit the sale of flavored cigarettes as are New York, Minnesota, West Virginia, Connecticut, Illinois, North Carolina and Texas.

At least one tobacco company, Reynolds American Inc., has already stopped advertising them. Another, Altria, doesn't make candy- or fruit-flavored cigarettes and supports a ban.

"These are designed to attract younger smokers," said Michael Bopp of the American Cancer Society. "We don't want to see a product introduced that will give back the gains we've made in this state in reducing teenage smoking."

Is this the world people really want to live in? If you hand out flavored condoms to 13-year-olds it's considered "enlightened", but adults aren't allowed to buy flavored cigarettes. Not to mention the numerous other products that could be next on the hit list: flavored cigars, flavored malt beverages, flavored wines, flavored coffee, flavored tea, flavored liquer, etc..