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White House delays menthol cigarette ban, alarming anti-smoking advocates
AP ^ | 12/6/23 | MATTHEW PERRONE

Posted on 12/08/2023 11:31:33 AM PST by DallasBiff

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House officials will take more time to review a sweeping plan from U.S. health regulators to ban menthol cigarettes, an unexpected delay that anti-tobacco groups fear could scuttle the long-awaited rule.

Administration officials indicated Wednesday the process will continue into next year, targeting March to implement the rule, according to an updated regulatory agenda posted online. Previously, the rule was widely expected to be published in late 2023 or early January.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: cigarettes; menthol
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The above looks like a lesbian Gloria Steinam ad.

All I remember was my mom scooting me out out the house to walk 3/4's mile to the school bus stop.

I guess Mom my mother spent her time alone, with coffee, Salem's, and the newspaper

1 posted on 12/08/2023 11:31:33 AM PST by DallasBiff
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2 posted on 12/08/2023 11:33:32 AM PST by struggle
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Anti-smoking advocates vs black voters. Which to choose, which to choose?


3 posted on 12/08/2023 11:36:27 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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With most Black smokers favoring menthols, I’ll be surprised if they’re banned until after next year.


4 posted on 12/08/2023 11:38:13 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: struggle
You’ve got to cut Biden some slack there. He had just defeated Corn Pop in a brutal fight, and felt like relaxing a bit.


5 posted on 12/08/2023 11:39:51 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: DallasBiff

The black guys I know who smoke all smoke menthol. Outlawing menthol is gonna p*ss them off.


6 posted on 12/08/2023 11:42:12 AM PST by jimwatx
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To: DallasBiff

Quit smoking in 1976 after 14 years of smoking. Could never stand menthols.
I guess naming the original menthol Kool was a successful marketing ploy to get black smokers hooked


7 posted on 12/08/2023 11:45:27 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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I think Blacks should be able to smoke Kools if they want to. I think Whites and Asians should be able to also. And the anti smokers can KMA. I’ll decide for myself. Not some arrogant Pharisee in the public domain.


8 posted on 12/08/2023 11:46:56 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: struggle

I know it’s too
Much to ask, but imagine if the left would ease up on the notion that they know better than everyone else how their lives should be lived. Alas, easing up is not in them, because the central aspect of the liberal mind is the will to control others


9 posted on 12/08/2023 11:47:17 AM PST by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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"alarming anti-smoking advocates"

Anti-smoking, or just anti-tobacco?

90% probability these anti-smoking "Karens" have no problem with people that want to smoke weed.
10 posted on 12/08/2023 11:47:37 AM PST by indthkr
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To: hanamizu

Simple people’s votes are far more valuable than people’s health.


11 posted on 12/08/2023 11:49:47 AM PST by gibsonguy
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"The above looks like a lesbian Gloria Steinam ad."

No way. There were no lesbians before 2008, and the girl on the right is hawt, even with those funky leather patch jeans.

12 posted on 12/08/2023 11:51:03 AM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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Black people smoke more menthol cigarettes than anyone... so Biden doesn’t want to mess with the black fraud vote - oops, I mean black vote.


13 posted on 12/08/2023 11:52:16 AM PST by GOPJ
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Simple people’s votes are far more valuable than people’s health.

The open border illustrates that quite nicely.

14 posted on 12/08/2023 11:52:58 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: DallasBiff

Blacks overwhelmingly smoke menthols.


15 posted on 12/08/2023 11:53:23 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: gibsonguy
"Simple people’s votes are far more valuable than people’s health."

It really is amazing that The White Hospice has some Gen Z dweeb scouring the Reg Book for any possible wedge issue with their melanin cohort, anything less than stopping the migras invasion, of course.

16 posted on 12/08/2023 11:53:41 AM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: Vaquero

Ex smoker here. At one time I smoked True Green 100s or B&H Menthols. Stopped for 2 years. Picked it up again but realized how awful menthol cigarettes are. Switched to non-menthol before quitting for good.


17 posted on 12/08/2023 11:53:55 AM PST by GSWarrior
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My father started smoking menthols in his late 50s and smoked them until he died at 87... He had previously smoked Rothman’s. Not sure if that’s the key to longevity or not, but they obviously didn’t hurt him.


18 posted on 12/08/2023 11:55:13 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: struggle

Izzat Plugs Biden???


19 posted on 12/08/2023 12:04:28 PM PST by CMailBag (I)
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To: indthkr

‘90% probability these anti-smoking “Karens” have no problem with people that want to smoke weed.’

Yeah, I’m a nonsmoker, but that double-standard irks me too... especially in California. The minority of nicotine users (most of whom seems to hold down jobs and be productive members of society) are demonized while the stoners are celebrated and do as they please. When I’m at a baseball game in San Francisco, for example, it seems like no one would ever dare to light up a tobacco cigar, cigarette or pipe in the bleachers, but the stoners fire up their foul-smelling, brain-rotting doobies with impunity.


20 posted on 12/08/2023 12:13:18 PM PST by irishjuggler
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