Posted on 05/17/2020 11:42:27 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The ban - part of a European Union initiative to discourage young people from taking up smoking - will come into effect on Wednesday, May 20
Menthol cigarettes will be banned in the United Kingdom from next week in a bid to discourage young people from taking up smoking.
The ban - part of a European Union initiative - will come into effect on Wednesday, May 20.
Under the new directive, flavoured rolling tobacco and "skinny" cigarettes will be outlawed.
Experts believe youngsters use flavoured cigarettes as they relax airways and lower the severity of smoke.
While it is commonly believed that menthol cigarettes are less harmful than their regular counterparts, they are actually just as damaging to people's health.
The ban comes from the EU's new Tobacco Product Directive laws, which prohibit all menthol cigarettes.
In 2018, nearly one in eight UK smokers rated menthols their favourite.
Deborah Arnott, chief executive of public health charity Action on Smoking and Health, told the Liverpool Echo : "Research shows that menthol in cigarettes makes it easier for children to try smoking and to go on to become addicted smokers.
"Getting rid of menthol cigarettes will reduce the likelihood of young people taking up smoking, and make it easier for smokers to quit."
Under the new regulations, no person may produce or supply cigarettes or hand rolling tobacco with:
(a) a filter, paper, package, capsule or other component containing flavourings;
(b) a filter, paper or capsule containing tobacco or nicotine; or
(c) a technical feature allowing the consumer to modify the smell, taste, or smoke intensity of the product.
According to Cancer Research, two-thirds of smokers start before the age of 18 with tobacco smoking causing an estimated 100,000 deaths every year in the UK.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
That’s not KOOL!!
How to create a black market in methanol cigarettes with one easy government step.
They will just get hooked on regular cigarettes or something else
That said, banning menthol is unlikely to have a positive effect on the number of teens starting to smoke. Although I'll bet that statistics can be juggled to show the measure to have been a huge success.
When I was a kid I spent part so my summers and holidays with my best friend down in Ensenada, Mexico. When I was a teenager I took up smoking for a while. On one of my visits we ran out of American Marlboros, so we borrowed a few packs of Mexican Salems from a neighbor/friend.
It resulted in the only bout of diarrhea I ever experienced in Mexico.
Excellent.
The ban - part of a European Union initiative
One drop of peppermint oil on the filter will give you about double the menthol of a Kool cigarette. They’ll figure it out.
I thought UK brexited from that putrid EU? Tell them to go Obama themselves.
Don’t know about England but in America “menthols” were black peoples choice for smokes. Might be a bit of racism behind this choice to ban just this type of cigarettes (not that anyone should smoke, it’s a gross habit)
Hey GI, you got Sayrim?
Maybe a Kennedy can step up and fill the void.
Time for the bootleggers to start importing them for a huge profit.
Sounds like a job for the Kennedy family.
oh wait, the younger Kennedy’s don’t know how to work.
Tomorrow’s headline... “menthol kills virus!”...
LOL!
(J/K)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.