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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Are they going to also ban boards of education from giving out mentholated grape flavored pencils to minorities as well? (Drawn Together reference)
Ban stereotypically “black” cigarettes.. Yeah, that’s not racist at all... Next they’ll be banning malt liquor and cheap “cognac”.
BLACK CIGARETTES MATTER!!!
Nanny State PING!
heil hitler to the FDA.
So, it isn’t just me....
How long before we hear of someone being killed for a menthol cig?
you can afford plywood ?
Cig bootlegging is universal isn’t it?
I remember back in the 60s there were guys selling low tax Kentucky cigarettes in Cleveland out of car trunks at factory shift change times.
Tobacco marketing targeting African-Americans refers to the practice of customizing tobacco products and advertising techniques specifically to African-American consumers. It is most commonly analyzed through the consumption of mentholated cigarettes, as it represents 47% of black adult smokers and 84% of adolescent black smokers.
Next they'll be banning menthol cough drops.
Parliament was the brand I started with. Man I must be getting old. . . lol!
Racists
So I guess watermelon and fried chicken will be next on the chopping block? The concept that ‘black’ or LBGT communities are smokers of menthol is as racist as it gets.
Ban menthol cigarettes and legalize weed, another example of asinine political correctness.
True story: I went to pick up my college kid last year in his on campus dorm. Before I entered the dorm I passed a few kids smoking cigarettes outside in the cold. There was a sign on the dorm entrance that said “no smoking cigarettes inside the dorm.” I then entered the dorm and the thick smell of weed was everywhere.
Do you miss it? I once got into a casual conversation with a delivery man, who mentioned that he used to smoke but hadn't touched a cigarette in ten years.
"Do you miss it?" I jokingly asked.
"Oh yes!" he cried, and it was obvious he was being serious. "Every single day of my life, I kid you not!"
I miss it.
This will lose the dems a lot of black voters.
Watch out, cracker! Next day comin’ for’ yo’ mayonnaise!
” 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.”
This is, of course, blatant racial stereotyping!
Trump was giving blacks the opportunity for prosperity.
The Democrats now have to beat them back into gratitude for empty words.
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