FDA proposes ban on menthol cigarettes, flavored cigars in U.S.

UPI ^ | 4/29/2021 | Don Johnson

[sodpoodle]

Good grief!!!!

[Seruzawa]

Yet you can still attach electrodes to the head of a child and pass 400 volts through his/her head, causing permanent brain damage and often, immediate death, and the FDA is fine with this.

[Army Air Corps]

I can already foresee a thriving black market. Heck, I can foresee some enterprising individuals offering flavoring kits and/or services for tobacco products.

[Red Badger]

a thriving black market...........................

That’s wayciss!...............

[joe fonebone]

We have to ban menthol cigarettes because..... Racist...
Good lord, how much more of this crap is the public going to accept?

[sodpoodle]

Biden will try to ban alcohol next!

Back to Prohibition!

[dynachrome]

Hands off my colt45!/s

[Grampa Dave]

This is racist and illegally targets the poor black Menthol smoker.

[sodpoodle]

It’s all about control.

[dainbramaged]

I used to love a big wad of Beech Nut Wintergreen chewing tobacco when commercial fishing. A hint of mint and great spitting.

[SkyDancer]

Read where the menthol crystalizes in the lungs.

[BitWielder1]

Whether you care about flavored tobacco or not, we must resist this on general principles.
If they manage to push this through, I'm sure there are a lot of other things they plan to ban next.

[ConservaTexan]

Don’t hold your breath waiting for the MSM to cover this with the “Minorities Hardest Hit” headlines.

[ealgeone]

Next up: colt 45

[RandallFlagg]

....and they can’t easily switch to the safer vaping alternative because....government.

[redgolum]

Trump raised the smoking age to 21 in a similar move a few years back.

Tobacco will be banned soon. And Mary Jane legal.

What an odd time.

[Boogieman]

“Yet you can still attach electrodes to the head of a child ... and the FDA is fine with this.”

Umm, since when is the FDA supposed to regulate things like that?

[ConjunctionJunction]

Mary Jane is basically Soma (Brave New World).

[big.willa]

in my misspent youth, we would camp out in a remote spot and choke/smoke swisher sweets flavored cigars, ‘figure out’ women and generally bond and talk amongst ourselves. would not trade those times for the world even though it was not healthy. this is how young men grew up back in the day. ‘merka i don’t recognize u . . .

[Seruzawa]

Shocking the brains out of people is a fully approved treatment regimen.