FDA Bans Menthol Cigarettes And Flavored Cigars

[RedCloakBlackWraithe]

Black n milds too

only sweeta flavour? just add weeed breh tobacco is for 60 year old, would you believe i worked with a guy that smoked century sam cigars that weren't stuffed with marijuuuuanna, i couldn't believe the shyt, smeellllled like straight shyt

 

[NYChase718]

Sell out

 

[BK The Great]

Sell out

Yoooo

 

[BlackBall]

Just mail order from Florida

 

[banner34]

Boohoo, less black people developing lung cancer and heart disease in my eyes. It's not like black people own Philip Morris

There will still be a market to get these products.

 

[jadillac]

Not Marlboro huh?

They cater to a "certain crowd"

 

[skylove4]

@skylove4 Time to change that avi, breh!

Might as well. I can’t even see the shyt right now anyway

 

[ORDER_66]

Not Marlboro huh?

They cater to a "certain crowd"

 

[breakfuss]

You seem to be hinting this disproportionally affects black people. I'm not disagreeing. I'm also saying that's the very reason it wasn't banned before. It is what it is. Why should we care when these things also disproportionally kill black people?

 

[hashmander]

be targeted for death by a corporation and claim racism when it's banned. the racism was from phillip morris, not the FDA now banning it. not banning it years ago is what's racist.

Menthol cigarettes: The FDA's proposed ban and why they’re more harmful

Who smokes menthol cigarettes?

About 18.5 million people in the United States are regular menthol smokers. That’s 37% of the cigarette market. Here’s a breakdown of their use by race in the United States:

• 85% of Black smokers smoke menthols
• 46% of Hispanic smokers smoke menthols
• 39% of Asian American smokers smoke menthols

Why is race important? Because people who smoke menthols tend to inhale more deeply and have a harder time quitting smoking. That means that the health effects of smoking have a disproportionate impact on those communities with a higher rate of menthol use.

Menthols and mint are also extremely popular among teenage smokers. More than half of cigarette smokers ages 12 to 17 use menthol cigarettes.

The hope is that, once finalized, the rules will help reduce the number of new, young adult nonsmokers and improve the health of people who currently use menthol cigarettes.

What does the research say about the dangers of menthol cigarettes?

Because menthol flavoring masks the harsh taste of cigarette smoke, menthol smokers engage in more intense smoking behaviors than smokers of regular cigarettes. As a result, they suffer greater damage to their health. Here are three reasons menthols are so dangerous:

• People who smoke menthols smoke more. The minty coolness of the menthol covers up the harshness of the cigarette, so smoking is easier to tolerate. As a result, menthol smokers inhale more deeply and they smoke more cigarettes. That means over their smoking lifetime, they take in more of toxic chemicals and tar from cigarettes.
• Menthols are harder to quit. Research by both the FDA and the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee shows that those who smoke menthol cigarettes are more likely to be dependent and have more trouble quitting. So, while Black smokers are more likely to try to quit smoking than white smokers, they’re less likely to be successful. That’s because of a higher nicotine dependence related to smoking menthol cigarettes. One result: Black men and women have a higher rate of lung cancer than any other race.
• Menthols appeal to young smokers. Studies show that young people who start smoking menthol cigarettes are more likely to become addicted and become long-term daily smokers.

 

[beenz]

if this occurs, newports and kools will go out of business

also, what will nikkas smoke? cuz I have never known any nikka that doesn't smoke non-menthol cigarettes.

why do nikkas exclusively smoke menthol cigarette's??

 

[Detroit Wave]

Shouldnt be smoking that shyt anyways

 

[breakfuss]

if this occurs, newports and kools will go out of business

also, what will nikkas smoke? cuz I have never known any nikka that doesn't smoke non-menthol cigarettes.

why do nikkas exclusively smoke menthol cigarette's??

They marketed menthol to black folks lmao. Hell, now that I think about it I recall seeing ads for them in magazines like Vibe, Jet, Ebony etc. They also made them cheaper.

 

[hashmander]

if this occurs, newports and kools will go out of business

also, what will nikkas smoke? cuz I have never known any nikka that doesn't smoke non-menthol cigarettes.

why do nikkas exclusively smoke menthol cigarette's??

How Menthol Cigarettes Became Black Americans’ Preferred Smoke
By the 1950s, the tobacco industry had so deftly infiltrated American life that not smoking was pretty weird. In the later part of that decade, industry giants started looking into fostering underdeveloped markets, which kicked off an extensive, concerted effort to get Black people to use menthol cigarettes. In the early 1960s, Brown & Williamson, a tobacco company that later merged with R.J. Reynolds, held a series of focus groups that discovered Black smokers were more attracted to television advertising than their white counterparts.

So they dumped significant portions of their advertising budgets into TV ads.

“They began to run commercials in the 1960s with Black athletes, particularly Elston Howard of the New York Yankees, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, all selling these products,” said Gardiner, who wrote the most comprehensive study on the tobacco industry’s advertising efforts in Black communities. “This is the midst of the civil rights movement going on. I mean, the March on Washington was in 1963. The bombing of the church in Birmingham was in 1963. Here we have, in 1963, Elston Howard selling cigarettes on national television.”

 

[MikelArteta]

he gon ban gumbo and fried chicken next