By @tinocochinoradio, @theeserinaperez
Apr 29, 2021
An end to menthol cigarettes and flavored blunts could be coming to an end. It is expected the Biden Administration will propose a policy which will ban tobacco products popular with young adults.
This would effect Swisher Sweets, Backwoods, and King Palm. Now this wouldn t take effect immediately, there would be a years-long rule-making process.
Civil rights activists have been pushing for the ban, because they feel Black Americans have been hurt by the industry. When you combine high rates of smoking with systematic racism in health care systems, you have a tremendous health disparity, said Erika Sward, national assistant Vice President for advocacy at the American Lung Association.
By @tinocochinoradio, @theeserinaperez
Apr 29, 2021
An end to menthol cigarettes and flavored blunts could be coming to an end. It is expected the Biden Administration will propose a policy which will ban tobacco products popular with young adults.
This would effect Swisher Sweets, Backwoods, and King Palm. Now this wouldn t take effect immediately, there would be a years-long rule-making process.
Civil rights activists have been pushing for the ban, because they feel Black Americans have been hurt by the industry. When you combine high rates of smoking with systematic racism in health care systems, you have a tremendous health disparity, said Erika Sward, national assistant Vice President for advocacy at the American Lung Association.
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Biden administration expected to announce plan to ban menthol cigarettes
The administration s announcement is likely to be hailed by antismoking organizations as a critical and long-overdue step in curbing tobacco use.
By Laurie McGinleyWashington Post
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Packs of menthol cigarettes and other tobacco products at a store in San Francisco in 2018. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu,File
WASHINGTON – The Biden administration is expected to announce this week that it will propose a ban on menthol cigarettes, an action urgently sought by tobacco opponents and civil rights groups that say African Americans have been disproportionately hurt by the industry’s aggressive targeting of Black communities.
Apr 28, 2021
To sum it up, the left says that Blacks are too dumb to get a voter ID and those same nanny-state liberals say that blacks just can’t resist smoking those menthol cigarettes and thus the government must stop them from hurting themselves.
“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 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.”.