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Connecticut lawmakers seek wholesale ban on menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products


Connecticut lawmakers seek wholesale ban on menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products
Michael Hamad, Hartford Courant
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Proposed legislation before the Connecticut General Assembly would ban stores like Sam s Quick Stop in Hartford from selling flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes.
As concerns about the health risks of vaping among young people continue to grow, Connecticut lawmakers want to eliminate all flavored e-cigarette and tobacco products including menthol cigarettes, which tobacco companies have disproportionately marketed to communities of color.
“Back in the 1960s, the Black community: we didn’t see ourselves in commercials,” said the Rev. D. Stanley Lord, president of the Greater Bridgeport NAACP. “All of a sudden [the] tobacco [industry] saw that and said, ‘hey, we can put Blacks in commercials and make it cool to smoke.’ . We n ....

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