Posted on 04/28/2022 12:41:08 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government on Thursday released its long-awaited plan to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, citing the toll on Black smokers and young people.
“The proposed rules would help prevent children from becoming the next generation of smokers and help adult smokers quit,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, in a statement.
He added that the ban would also be an “important step to advance health equity” by reducing disparities in tobacco-related diseases.
The Food and Drug Administration said eliminating menthol cigarettes could prevent between 300,000 and 650,000 smoking deaths over 40 years.
Menthol accounts for more than a third of cigarettes sold in the U.S, and the mint flavor is favored by Black smokers and young people. Menthol’s cooling effect has been shown to mask the throat harshness of smoking, making it easier to start and harder to quit.
The FDA said it will also seek to ban menthol and dozens of other flavors like grape and strawberry from cigars, which are increasingly popular with young people, especially Black teens.
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Profiling, stereotyping and racism all in one package! Yayyyy!
Yet they have killed more with the vaccines than smoking does.
That is a very small tailpipe. Is it filtered too?
I see young people vaping, not smoking conventional cigarettes. And none smoking cigars. Vaping e cigs use flavorimy, so why aren’t they included?
Lutherans drink beer in our parish halls too, but instead of bingo we eat sausage suppers and make quilts for handing out to people as part of relief packages in the wake of disasters. For some reason, we do not include beer or pretzels in the relief packages.
LSMFT
Menthol already banned in MA.
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It does mean fine tobacco.
I found a glass Luck Strike window panel in a supposedly haunted old warehouse/factory down by the DuPont Experimental station...
So Baraq has to import his cigs when he's staying at the oceanside mansion?
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
“That Aunt-Jemimah-lookin’, fraud-vote-creating, gap-toothed, overweight Ghettopotamus SHOULD talk like that.”
Oh, I do not underestimate Abrams. Not in the slightest. In fact, I think she is a LOCK to become the next GA governor, and I expect her to run for (and win) the presidency of the United States some time after that.
I can see Georgia becoming the Illinois of the south.
Yeah, I’m seriously considering vacating this once-fine state. Perhaps relo to Alabama.
“In fact, I think she is a LOCK to become the next GA governor, and I expect her to run for (and win) the presidency...”
RACIST! We know who smokes KOOLS!
Drug abuse is a CHOICE, so drug deaths are suicides.
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