FDA weighs ban on menthol cigarettes, which disproportionately addict Black Americans

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5 thoughts on “FDA weighs ban on menthol cigarettes, which disproportionately addict Black Americans

  1. There’s many of us white menthol smokers also. We certainly don’t need the government or other organizations trying to tell us it’s not allowed anymore. The smartest thing is to always smoke outside, not indoors. No smoking is good, but outdoors eliminates any indoor second hand smoke, and eliminates rebreathing any smoke whether menthol or not. All these individual stories are nothing more than individual stories, they do not represent smokers as a whole and should not have new laws made for some individual’s problems or issues. Also, the very idea of outlawing menthol as more addictive is nonsense, especially more addictive to blacks. This is a real effort at racism towards blacks, and a real effort towards discrimination of all smokers.

    1. Your addiction to tobacco doesn’t just impact you. It impacts the healthcare workers that have to take of your chronic and acute medical problems related to it; the insurance company or government that has to pay for your healthcare; and the risk pool of people within your insurance plan who subsidize your healthcare costs.

  2. I remember when cigarette companies targeted young girls – anyone remember Virginia Slims – mostly white models in all of their ads? Not everything is institutional racism. Now that said, yes we should get rid of menthol. Everyone knows that they are worse for you than the regular cigs.

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