FDA moves to ban menthol cigarettes, flavored cigars

[PinktheFloyd88]

While tobacco is being phased out marijuana is being phased in.

Excellent.

 

[Polishprince]

Excellent.

If you work for the National Biscuit Company, the massively increased sales of oreos will certainly be a benefit I guess.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

For you pro banning people, sugar kills way more people than cigarettes.

We should ban sugar!

How about government forced morning exercises, or you are not allowed any sugar? Its for the greater good!

Sugar causes just about every disease Americans suffer from.

I haven't had sugar in a really long time. I recommend everybody get off that crack.

But there is no way in hell I'm going to ask government to force anybody to do anything like that.

 

[Polishprince]

Sugar causes just about every disease Americans suffer from.

I haven't had sugar in a really long time. I recommend everybody get off that crack.

Sugar is added to cigars, cigarettes, loose tobacco as well as snuff. So the two statements that tobacco and sugar are the primary cause of ailments aren't contradictory.

 

[insolent imp]

Sugar causes just about every disease Americans suffer from.

I haven't had sugar in a really long time. I recommend everybody get off that crack.

But there is no way in hell I'm going to ask government to force anybody to do anything like that.

So sugar causes gonorrhea? Or is that a different kind of sugar?

 

[Independentthinker]

Clearly the FDA is racist. Black smokers are large consumers of menthol cigarettes and this will have a disproportionate impact on them. On the other hand, 90% of them voted for this administration, so I guess they're getting what they voted for, right?

https://www.courthousenews.com/fda-moves-to-ban-menthol-cigarettes-flavored-cigars/

I was thinking this very same thing. You beat me to posting it. This is CLEARLY a racist policy.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Didn't you ever wonder why they lifted the lockdowns and mask mandates at the exact moment there was a dangerous new Covid strain that was ten times as virulent as the last one?

That's false.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

I was thinking this very same thing. You beat me to posting it. This is CLEARLY a racist policy.

You guys are shameless.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

The fact that they are specifically targeting menthol cigarettes suggests the FDA is racist. Why not just ban ALL cigarettes?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

The fact that they are specifically targeting menthol cigarettes suggests the FDA is racist. Why not just ban ALL cigarettes?

Because flavored tobacco products are in part geared toward children. It's a way to break the cycle.

Why are you guessing? It's literally the one reason they gave.

 

[petro]

Years ago I switched to menthols for a while because I was sick of a coworker who constantly bummed smokes off people.
Quit asking me after that.

I can't believe anyone prefers those nasty things.

 

[Independentthinker]

You guys are shameless.

Really? It is the left who constantly claim that any policy which negatively effects blacks to a disproportionate degree is racism and social injustice. Are you changing your mind now?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Really? It is the left who constantly claim that any policy which negatively effects blacks to a disproportionate degree is racism and social injustice. Are you changing your mind now?

Wait, so you're acting like a moron, because someone else acted like a moron?

Uh...okay.

 

[Hossfly]

Years ago I switched to menthols for a while because I was sick of a coworker who constantly bummed smokes off people.
Quit asking me after that.

I can't believe anyone prefers those nasty things.

Menthol cigs are like smoking a cough drop.

 

[Independentthinker]

Wait, so you're acting like a moron, because someone else acted like a moron?

Uh...okay.

Glad to see you realize that social injustice is overblown crap used to score points for political purposes.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Glad to see you realize that social injustice is overblown crap used to score points for political purposes.

Haha, you will basically tell yourself what you want to hear no matter what I say. Bizarre behavior, for a grown man.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

So sugar causes gonorrhea? Or is that a different kind of sugar?

Oh, you thought "causes about every" meant DOES cause every. You're mistaken.

 

[playtime]

quitting smoking was the hardest thing i ever did. i smoked menthols for 26 yrs, starting at the age of 12 & my last one was july 19, 2000 at 7am. i get no cravings now & smelling it on someone grosses me out .... but i know if i took one drag off a cigarette, i'd be back to a pack a day in no time.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

quitting smoking was the hardest thing i ever did. i smoked menthols for 26 yrs, starting at the age of 12 & my last one was july 19, 2000 at 7am. i get no cravings now & smelling it on someone grosses me out .... but i know if i took one drag off a cigarette, i'd be back to a pack a day in no time.

Congrats on kicking a VERY addicting drug habit. It takes stones to so that.

 

[playtime]

Congrats on kicking a VERY addicting drug habit. It takes stones to so that.

it really is. lol - i remember ozzy osbourne, who shot up heroine when he was younger said it was harder to quit nicotine.