Posted on 09/01/2023 10:34:14 AM PDT by fruser1
The Food and Drug Administration will release its official plan to phase out minty tobacco products 'in the coming months', setting the policy up to be implemented in 2024.
It first announced that it would ban menthol cigarettes in April 2022 in what would be its most consequential regulatory move against Big Tobacco since 2009 when Congress banned all flavors in cigarettes – save for menthol.
Researchers from the American Cancer Society also concluded that the ban led to the state smoking rate to fall by one percentage point more compared to states without a ban.
Still, Massachusetts law enforcement has seen an illicit market emerge for the banned products. The state’s Multi-Agency Illegal Tobacco Task Force for Massachusetts said in its annual report out in February that high taxes coupled with the flavor ban has encouraged smuggling of tobacco products across states.
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I’d consider a ban on ethanol in gasoline. Food would be cheaper and fuel wouldn’t screw up carburetors.
I never cared for menthol. My dad smoked KOOL then changed to another brand - I hated stealing his cigs because they were menthol. The suggestion that Trump use this is a GREAT idea.
That’s easy. Pull the trigger.
Next it will be old english 800 and colt malt liquor.
People really shouldn’t smoke but just banning menthols seems pretty racist.
I’ll continue to live where I can get Indonesian clove cigarettes. Not America.
Cloves and cigars are the only smokes worth smoking.
California did earlier this year.
This is the case of Most blatant racial discrimination in years!
KKK should be happy. Al Sharpton should intervene!
Ah. Good ol’ Djarums.
A lot of my friends smoked Newport back then.
“Big gov wants only potheads”
That makes me, a non-smoker of any substance, have a question.
Is, in the case of a tobacco cigarette, something other than the nicotine that makes the smoke itself be pleasurable or addictive? Same with pot cigarettes.
My daddy smoked those. I loved Newports but did quit early and reluctantly.
Jeez, I like second hand smoke from menthol cigarettes but these leftist are taking my free nicotine away. Where exactly does the constitution give government the power to do this?
when I was a kid we were told they make your lungs bleed ...
oh boy ... the afros and the afro wanna-bees are gonna riot over this one!! luckily I switched to non-menthol in ‘79...
This.
There will be a workaround to the ban.
I smoked them back in the early 70’s for a while.............
lol...
Have you seen the little black kid in the 5 gallon bucket of water with the caption...
Best summer ever!!
?? if not i’ll send you a link. I dont have an image host...
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