Sounds great, right? You must not be a politician. Hundreds of pharmacists are producing lollipops spiked with nicotine that more closely mimic the hit of nicotine a smoker gets from lighting up, and they’re tasty too, unlike many nicotine chewing gum products which the FDA says shouldn’t be too appetizing.

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) apparently doesn’t want people to have a good-tasting alternative to smoking. He wrote a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, asking him to stop sales of the nicotine pops until they’re approved by the FDA.

Pharmacists, responding to the demand for a better smoking-cessation technique, innovate with new products and one has even tried to apply for FDA approval but, naturally, can’t afford the costs of testing. Seems only huge pharmaceutical corporations can afford those (and they are supposed to hate the FDA because …).

Everyone knows that smoking is infinitely more harmful than any other form of nicotine intake. Fine, as long as we have an FDA, let’s get these products tested and approved, but why should smokers be denied the products in the meantime? It’s said they haven’t been proven "safe and effective" yet, but they haven’t been shown to be dangerous either. Live and let suck, I say.