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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What about Menthol pot????
“No Stems No Seeds That You Don’t Need...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwcSNp-NET4
I agree with you. Their reasoning is so patronizing, it is nauseating.
I never liked menthol’s, I was a Lucky Strike and Camel non-filter sort of guy and I didn’t need the government to wean me off cigarettes. I quit on my own cold turkey 40 years ago this August. I don’t need no stinking Nanny, especially a Democrat one.
Ever do the dreaded Kool straights?
I find it amazing that the feds can ban this sort of product. But then I rememebr Article II, Section 8, the "nanny state" clause (also known as commerce clause) in the constitution.
It is sometimes hard to tell whether the elites are hard racists or hard core evil or hard core fanatics....
probably a little of all of the above.
The black market in the black community is gonna make Prohibition look like a garden party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menthol#Applications
Blacks are gonna start running vick vapor rub on their ciggies
Not me, but a lot of pipe smokers will storm the FDA if they ban cherry, vanilla, and coffee flavored tobaccos.
I suppose they’ll go after orange soda next
I don’t need any ‘improvements’ to my cigarettes, nor do I require any protection from them, so bug off!
Stay away from my menthol Marlboro Ultra Lights!!
Skittles and Arizona Ice Tea.
If this isn’t RACIST, I don’t know what is. What’s next, banning Black and Mild cigars?
Banning menthols is racist.
Kools for me too. Back in the army. also noticed most black guys smoked em. Kools n Newpotes. So they r hit hardest I guess. Once again.
Ah, but is “menthol weed” legal?
The problem is “menthol.”
This.
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Racism.
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I see an excellent business opportunity for organized crime.
What about koolaid or fruit punch
Oh, and 40s of malt liquor
Clearly a racist policy
Cigarettes are raciss.
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