Menthol cigarettes banned in the UK from next week in bid to stop youngsters smoking

Mirror (U.K.) ^ | 17 MAY 2020 | Chiara Fiorillo

[Lockbar]

That’s not KOOL!!

[mosaicwolf]

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[BenLurkin]

Or Brand X

[cnsmom]

They will just get hooked on regular cigarettes or something else

[Seaplaner]

I'm all for encouraging young peeps (and really all folks) to not smoke. Tobacco or anything. It damages one's health in truly horrible ways.

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.

[Jeff Chandler]

[Jeff Chandler]

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.

[Drango]

Excellent.

[hanamizu]

The ban - part of a European Union initiative

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I thought the UK left the EU. Was I misinformed?

[Karl Spooner]

One drop of peppermint oil on the filter will give you about double the menthol of a Kool cigarette. They’ll figure it out.

[Bonemaker]

I thought UK brexited from that putrid EU? Tell them to go Obama themselves.

[escapefromboston]

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)

[Dr. Sivana]

I worked in the Faber's sundry shop at Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Chicago decades ago. I got to see a profile of who smoked what. Black men definitely smoked Kools, pronounced "kəhls". Black women went more for Newport Lights. Japanese were the only ones who bought Kents. Frenchmen were the only ones who purchased Tareyton (pronounced tare-ee'-tun); and once in a while an odd southerner would get a Lark. Real old guys would go for Chesterfields Kings. In those days Marlboro and Winston (camel lights were a distant runner-up) were the main sellers among regular Americans, though in that venue, Benson and Hedges made a strong showing in those days.

[tet68]

Hey GI, you got Sayrim?

[SKI NOW]

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Maybe a Kennedy can step up and fill the void.

[Midwesterner53]

Time for the bootleggers to start importing them for a huge profit.

[Texas resident]

Sounds like a job for the Kennedy family.

oh wait, the younger Kennedy’s don’t know how to work.

[mrsmith]

Tomorrow’s headline... “menthol kills virus!”...
LOL!
(J/K)