{"id":1943,"date":"2014-02-22T20:36:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T20:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2014-02-22T21:17:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T21:17:18","slug":"bidis-what-the-hell-are-they-and-why-the-fda-just-ban-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1943","title":{"rendered":"Bidis, what the hell are they? And why did the FDA just ban them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bidis.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1944\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?attachment_id=1944\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bidis.jpg?fit=262%2C237&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"262,237\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bidis\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bidis.jpg?fit=262%2C237&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1944\" alt=\"bidis\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bidis.jpg?resize=262%2C237&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"262\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The FDA just took its first action to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bidis-are-first-tobacco-product-banned-under-fda-regulatory-law\/\">actually ban a tobacco product &#8212; bidis.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have to be honest, never heard of &#8217;em before. \u00a0The FDA last week banned\u00a0Sutra Bidis Red, Sutra Bidis Menthol, Sutra Bidis Red Cone and Sutra Bidis Menthol Cone. It&#8217;s the first substantive action the FDA has taken against a tobacco product since Obama signed legislation giving the agency expanded power over tobacco back in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>What is a bidi? According to the Centers for Disease Control, they are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; thin, hand rolled cigarettes that are made mostly in India and other Southeast Asian countries. The tobacco is wrapped in a tendu or temburni leaf, and tied with a colorful string. They come in flavors like chocolate, cherry or mango or may be unflavored. They have a higher amount of nicotine and tar and produce more carbon monoxide than traditional cigarettes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That 2009 law banned candy-flavoured cigarettes (but not candy-flavoured cigars), because studies showed that 35 percent of teens start smoking cigarettes by first smoking candy-flavoured cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>So, not only do bidis have candy flavourings, they also have a higher level of nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide than traditional cigarettes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FDA just took its first action to actually ban a tobacco product &#8212; bidis. I have to be honest, never heard of &#8217;em before. \u00a0The FDA last week banned\u00a0Sutra Bidis Red, Sutra Bidis Menthol, Sutra Bidis Red Cone and Sutra Bidis Menthol Cone. It&#8217;s the first substantive action the FDA has taken against a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1943\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bidis, what the hell are they? And why did the FDA just ban them?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[232,233,25,66],"tags":[635,595],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bidis","category-candy-cigarettes","category-fda","category-teen-smoking","tag-bidis","tag-fda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bidis.jpg?fit=262%2C237&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-vl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4063,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4063","url_meta":{"origin":1943,"position":0},"title":"Tobacco use in India drops from 34 to 28 percent","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"June 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Good news from India (and I'm hoping I have some readers from India who will be interested to read this.) 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