Quotes About Regulation

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.

The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product.

Sugar is the new tobacco.

The history of the tobacco industry is not a positive one.

What we're now seeing is that big tech is just like any other industry. When push comes to shove, when it affects profit, they make decisions just like an oil or tobacco company would.

It is time for Congress to provide relief for tobacco farmers. Since the 1930's tobacco production has been regulated by a quota system, which required farmers to purchase quota in order to grow tobacco.

E-cigarettes are a tobacco product.

Cigars, cigarettes, and hookah tobacco are all smoked tobacco - addictive and deadly. We need effective action to protect our kids from struggling with a lifelong addiction to nicotine.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

In fact, it is my case that POFMA can easily become a proverbial Damocles sword that would hang over members of the public who do not support the government's narrative or toe the government's line.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

The whole thrust of the platform suggests an insight of significance today. The Alliance saw the greatest threat to freedom not in government, but in big business. It looked to government as the only viable counterweight. Among the measures it advocated were an interstate commerce law to regulate railroad freight rates and laws to curb or prohibit financial speculation in railroad stock, agricultural futures, and land, and the strict enforcement of those laws.

A December 2018 study found that the EPA had cleared about half as many cases nationwide as it had just the previous year, FY 2017. So enfeebled, what do the enforcers still enforce? With limited resources, they go for smaller fry. My neighbors out fishing are more likely to get a citation for a leaky outboard than the insulation factory a few towns over is for swilling gallons of formaldehyde into a river.

Learn to know your particular balance between being overstimulated/understimulated and overwhelmed/underwhelmed.

The government runs the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.

In Alaska, it's against the law to look for a moose from an airplane.

68. Until 1974, it was actually illegal to appear in public in Chicago if you were ugly.

Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

People create jobs, not the government.

He that loves the law will get his fill of it.

O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.

Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.