A friend recently made the sarcastic comment that” the state hates when young people are having fun in reference to the Food and Drug Administration’s ongoing battle against the price of smoking materials. The joke appeared to have some truth in it, despite being made in laughter.  ,
Recently, a legal dispute has forced the well-known smoking brand Zyn to stop selling on the internet. Following the FDA’s decision to issue 119 cautions to retailers who sell Zyn smoking to minors as a result of this growth. Ironically, these actions occurred only a few weeks after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer condemned the solution, imploring the FDA to research further.
In light of these steps, it seems Zyn has entered the sights of the FDA’s warfare against nicotine use.
The FDA issued a caution against sweetened vaping products not long ago in 2018, and in 2020 the FDA banned the sale of most flavored smoke seeds, cutting short the well-known American merchant Juul’s sales. A few years after, the FDA ordered a end on all Juul products, including their two remaining flavor, tobacco and peppermint.
These FDA regulations caused a significant market space and destroyed Juul’s company. There has n’t been a crackdown on disposable flavored nicotine products from foreign countries ( often China ), such as Breeze Vapes and Geek Bars, which is convenient for some. They replaced Juul right away, remain popular today, and have n’t been banned.
Zyn, a quiet flavored smoking pack, has grown in popularity since these restrictions. Joy skyrocketed last season, with a 62 percent increase in sales. The reputation boom has been attributed to popular factors like Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan’s influence on TikTok. Additionally, it has become a cornerstone of the popular” White Boy Summer,” which derives its name from a music track that Chet Hanks, the son of professional Tom Hanks, wrote. ” White Boy Summer” conjures memories for frats, power, Lana Del Rey’s American lore, and the early 2000s promotion efforts of Abercrombie &, Fitch and Hollister.  ,
Romantic Americana and caffeine go hand in hand. Zyns and smokes remind us of an effective America, when the working group was strong, business flourished, and youngsters culture was radiant. Before the weariness of today’s social slowdown, America was full of enthusiastic and ambitious individuals, people who were proud of their heritage.
We’d managed to maintain two entirely different, but equally American, cultural centers on the East and West Coasts. Our strong desire to be exciting was still unfulfilled, as evidenced by the tobacco grown in our nation’s inside. To get American was to be slim and beautiful with a burner in hand from the Jersey Shore to the opulent shores of Southern California.
Cigarettes are the best reason for a step beyond, a breath of fresh air, and, as Ann Coulter again said, “give people a 5- minute limit on conversation time, like an unobtrusive much hourglass”. They both ease nerves and energize the mind, like the American Indian around the tent, allowing us a sort of pensive social moment. When Paul Simon “walked off looking for America,” tobacco were the first item he grabbed.
The link between smoking and performance and experience is grounded in reality rather than just an American memories campaign launched by artists and corporations.
Nicotine is a nootropic — a brain stimulant. This contributes to its addictiveness, but it’s also why it’s associated with vitality and energy. Dopamine helps to calm your nerves while improving memory and cognition while also increasing alertness. According to a study from the National Library of Medicine, “nicotine has cognitive-enhancing effects. Attention, working memory, fine motor skills and episodic memory functions are particularly sensitive to nicotine’s effects”. The adverse effects of nicotine consumption are well documented, but so are the benefits.  ,
Contrast these benefits to the effects of marijuana — sloth, paranoia, even schizophrenia. Although marijuana is still prohibited in six of the 50 states, daily marijuana use has outpaced daily alcohol use. There are far greater risks posed by excessive marijuana use, such as cannabis-associated psychosis, than the 40 percent of marijuana users who use it each day, which is more in line with the habit of smoking than alcohol. Additionally, excess marijuana use is proven to have much more debilitating side effects. It can affect normal brain development, leading to problems in learning, memory, coordination, reaction time, and judgment.
Anecdotally, I can quickly recall instances where friends or classmates became losers and recluses, failed classes, got fat, and had nasty breakouts due to their routine marijuana use. Interestingly enough, my friends who smoked cigarettes and used Zyns were funny, social, beautiful, and intelligent people with strong opinions who wrote excellent papers and were generally regarded as pleasant company.
The nicotine war might be seen as a invasive but beneficial public health initiative. However, it seems subversive and monomaniacal in contrast to the country’s growing marijuana use. Amid this war against nicotine consumption, the use of marijuana products has been legalized and popularized. People inhale the easily accessible depressant in a wide range of smoke or vapor products, and there are no barriers to eating options. When I consider the FDA’s concern about advertising nicotine to children, I wonder if they are aware of the readily available THC gummy bears I could purchase down the street.
The FDA, which has been so vehemently focused on the regulation of nicotine products, will blatantly ignore the unprecedented expansion of a new drug market. Their goal, openly, is to eventually eliminate the use of tobacco products, which have far fewer behavioral side effects. If not a public health issue, but a covert war against a smart and funny young America that might ask its leaders to hold their anti-American policies to account for their provocative essays.  ,
Maybe the FDA is simply unaware of how widespread marijuana use is or how harmful it is to society. And perhaps they are unaware of the numerous advantages of smoking. Or maybe the government is n’t altruistic. Maybe the FDA’s war on nicotine is just a war against vitality.
Caleb Wallace Holm is an artist, writer, internet enjoyer, and recent graduate of Hillsdale College.
