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Biden administration expected to announce plan to ban menthol cigarettes
April 29, 2021 | BPR Wire

    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.

    The administration also is poised to say it will seek to ban menthol and other flavors in mass-produced cigars, including small cigars popular with young people, according to administration officials familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss it publicly.

    It could be years before such bans would take effect, but the administration’s announcement is likely to be hailed by anti-smoking organizations as a critical and long-overdue step in curbing tobacco use and improving public health. Despite sharp declines in smoking in recent years, tobacco use remains a leading cause of illness and death in the United States and worldwide, especially among people of color.

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But it'd not rassis if the Rats are doing it for the Black folks own good.



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So (b)lacks are too lazy to quit smoking on their own, they need their White Oppressors to take away those evil cigarettes?

Or are those evil White Oppressors trying to increase employment in da hood by encouraging more entreprenurial (b)lacks to stand outside convenience stores selling tax-free "singles", like that fool Eric Gardner was in NY, the original Can't Breathe Idiot?

As everyone knows, cigarettes have always been a symbol of White Oppression.   They're usually in white paper, aren't they?  A solid White sheet of  paper wrapped around, SURROUNDING, chopped up BROWN leaves...if that's not a symbol of White Oppression, what is?
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Biden’s Unfair Menthol Ban Is Bad For Black Smokers
The Biden administration is taking aim at menthol cigarettes. Under a new proposal, the minty tobacco product could be outright banned by the federal government.
By David Marcus
April 29, 2021
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The Biden administration is taking aim at menthol cigarettes. Under a new proposal, the minty tobacco product could be outright banned by the federal government. Not all cigarettes, mind you, although there is talk along those lines too, just menthols. The plan isn’t just wrongheaded, it’s dangerous and deeply unfair as well. Also, like so much of Biden’s backwards agenda, it places needless emphasis on race.

So why ban menthols and only menthols? It is because they are the type of cigarette most favored by black smokers. This is a ham-fisted attempt at equity that not only doesn’t create equity but has the potential to harm black smokers more than their white counterparts, who tend to be less likely to smoke Kools or Newports.   ...

But even without the concerns regarding Chinese counterfeiting, claims of equity for this policy that punishes black smokers are absurd on their face. One imagines Biden views this as racially progressive because he imagines it will diminish rates of smoking among blacks. Even if it does, though, what a horribly paternalistic plan.

White smokers, Biden seems to think, should be free to make their own decisions about sucking down a Marlboro Light, either because they are better able to handle that choice, or because they are on some level disposable. Black smokers, on the other hand, must be protected by the government from their own bad choices. The proposal limits Americans’ choices on a racial basis, but of course Biden thinks he is doing it for black people’s own good.   ...
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They have no clue how to govern, so they come up with ignorant things to worry about.  Think of something, worthless, stupid.  THAT IS WHAT THEY WILL WORRY ABOUT IN biden adm.  They are all nuts. 

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Making 'blunts' and 'lean' illegal?    It is to keep the people agitated.  ZERO to do with anyone's health.  Like the covid vaccines.