FDA plans to ban menthol cigarettes

[tickyul]

I cannot stand smoking, menthol-cigs are just, GACK.

I am not for bans, just issue me a gas-mask so I can don it when I am near
someone who smokes menthols.

[Catgirl64]

Sure. Let's do this. Let's make it kind of like Prohibition, since that worked so well. -_-

[UrbanAdventurer]

Why? are they worse than regular cigarettes? I'm pretty sure not. I say this as an occasional smoker of both menthol and non-menthol cigarettes. (Not too often these days though.)

[ARaider08]

Originally Posted by victimofGM

Could this be racist? Majority of menthol cigarette smokers are from the black community. Minors (children under the age of 18) aren’t smoking menthol cigarettes more than other types of cigarettes. In fact the trend is moving towards e-cigarettes or vaping. Why target only menthol cigarettes? Personally I’m against further government intrusion and I never smoked anything in my 49 years. Let the free market and customer base decide for themselves.

I thought the exact same thing.


Menthols are definitely the preferred option for many ethnic communities...

After some research, they're apparently less harsh so "maybe" it's an effort to minimize the ease of smoking but I can't say I believe that.


If you wanted to make smoking harder, why not start w/ raising the age?
Disallow sales in C-Stores and allow states to control the sale of them.
Legalize pot.
Better manage e-cigarettes (which are even easier to smoke than menthols)



There's many other ways to minimize the effects of smoking than targeting a particular kind of cigarette.

[redguitar77111]

Originally Posted by don1945

If the government was truly being racist, wouldn't they want MORE BLACKS to smoke them, to make them sick ?

Based on that logic, a racist government would legalize all drugs and reduce incarceration. The reason racist governments tend to ban things that blacks like is because they want an excuse to police, incarcerate, and segregate blacks.