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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Just another effort to take peoples freedom and dictate what people can or not do.....chop...chop...chop..
What about Menthol pot????
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Let’s turn this around.
How about Skunk flavored cigs?
Remember the Micronite Filter?
Chit was asbestos.
Just kidding! Your ex is fortunate she didn’t smoke em in front of any junior high guys in the 70’s! ;)
I’ve been ordering pallets of cheap but bulky stuff just to get the pallets.
Thankfully my smoking days were over with quickly when the fellow I had such a crush on told me that I looked like hell smoking a cigarette.
DBlacks an LGBTQWTF hardest hit
I smoked Kools for a short period when I was young. Never liked Salems. I’m not sure how this helps anyone quit smoking. I finally quit for good when I was 46 (now 63). I currently enjoy a stick of Big Red Gum (”Flavor last a long time”) after I have my morning coffee. If you are currently a smoker worried about how you will do without that first smoke of the day (especially after a cup of coffee) try a stick of Big Red Gum.
You mean flavored like bad lefty pubbies and lefty left Dims??
“Guess what the best selling smokes are in the markets over the border in New Hampshire.”
I know! Call on me!
BLM will riot nationwide if Kool and Salem cigs are banned.
I used to smoke newports. I miss them...except for the smell, the cost, the weezing, the inconvience, and health risks.
Next.....The Bull banned.....
Then fried chicken and watermelon
Do not doubt me ....
Black folk betrayed yet again by one of their own
Delmonte Jefferson....you know without looking..
.his mommy was likely having some canned pineapple after birthing him and said.....Shazam Auntie....let’s call him Delmonte.....sounds better than Dole
Kinda silly to ban menthol cigarettes but not the CIGARETTES THEMSELVES.
When I worked in a movie theater in high school, orange seemed to be preferred by our black patrons. Maybe if grape had been an available selection, that would have been the choice.
They be chillin’................... in da ol’ folks home.............
Delmonte Jefferson?
Imagine being named after a can of green beans................
I do..............and Chesterfields..................
LOL!
His brother is named Van Camp...........................
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