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Posted on 04/27/2021 1:09:05 PM PDT by Dahoser
The Food and Drug Administration appears likely to move to ban menthol in cigarettes this week — a step, experts say, that has been years in the making and that could have a significant positive impact on the health of Black Americans.
The FDA's decision would not ban menthol immediately, but rather kick off the rule-making process to do so, which could take years.
"The winds are definitely in our favor," said Delmonte Jefferson, executive director of the Center for Black Health & Equity, citing both the decades of data that show that the cooling flavor in cigarettes makes it easier to start smoking combined with the current cultural momentum toward improving the lives of Black Americans.
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Other vulnerable groups might also benefit. LGBTQ communities also have higher rates of menthol tobacco use, as do adolescents.
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You cancel Kools and Newports and there will be consequences
"The winds are definitely in our favor," said Delmonte Jefferson, executive director of the Center for Black Health & Equity, citing both the decades of data that show that the cooling flavor in cigarettes makes it easier to start smoking combined with the current cultural momentum toward improving the lives of Black Americans... Other vulnerable groups might also benefit. LGBTQ communities also have higher rates of menthol tobacco use, as do adolescents.
Banning these particular butts is racist.
Banning these particular butts is racist.
Newport 100s. Like having two addictions: nicotine & menthol.
I quit over forty years ago. For several years I would dream that I had forgotten that I quit, that I bought a pack, and that I smoked half of them before remembering that I quit.
It was about ten years after quitting that I no longer looked forward to sharing an elevator with a smoker. It took that long for the pleasantness to subside.
Also, I seem to recall that the health statistics for ex-smokers begin to resemble those of non-smokers after about ten years.
Tell your delivery man to hang in there. It continues to get easier.
Remembering my step-brother smoking Kool non-filters. They had the filter colored paper but no filter material was enclosed. When Kool quite making non-filters he would bite the filters off and smoke them old-school.
He always said the Gov’t ought to ban filters, since they litter the landscape. He used to field dress his non-filters.
Died in a tornado of all things. Vietnam messed with his head, but he put a lot of sketches on paper and a few oils on canvas. Good guy, his father died in Europe during WWII.
They want you to miserable and then dead.
That’s cultural appropriation.
Colt 45
“said Delmonte Jefferson, executive director of the Center for Black Health & Equity”
Delmonte Jefferson?
I can’t even tell if this is satire or not...
“the “nanny state” clause (also known as commerce clause) in the constitution”
It’s not the clause that is the problem. It’s the progressive Supreme Court’s horribly bad interpretation of it that is the problem.
Besides Kools, there’s also Newport and Salem that are to my memory, exclusively Menthol.
Exactly.
I used to love Luden’s Menthol Cough Drops and Smith Brothers Licorice cough drops. Had to give up sugar candy because of Type 2 diabetes, so I’m stuck with Hall’s Sugar-Free now. Nobody makes a sugar-free licorice or honey-licorice cough drop. I used to like the Clove Life Savers as a kid, but they don’t make those anymore either. Nobody makes a sugar-free clove hard candy. I do like Brach’s Sugar-Free Cinnamon hard candy. It’s got a good cinnamon kick.
Didn’t Parliment’s have a slightly recessed filter? I smoked Marlboro reds until I quit in the mid 70’s.
How will anyone have tell?
I thought he said “coals”, which makes sense in the context.
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