Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner.For those of you who think this is nothing, think again. Jobs will be lost over this. Many local ciagrette stores will lose revenue and will be forced to let employees go. For those of you who are pro choice and pro freedom, and pro capitalism. This should be an issue for you
Those menthol cigarettes are smoked by millions and have been found to cause more problems than the smoother and world class tobacco that was dreams and djarum cigarettes
Kids do not start smoking because a cigarrete tastes good, they do it because it is cool.
I have a question for you. Why did they not ban menthol cigarettes???
A 2002 study found 60% of middle school smokers smoked menthol, says scientist James Hersey with RTI International, an independent research institute in Washington, D.C. "I think menthol is easier to smoke, so kids will often start with menthol."
And Hersey's research suggests young menthol smokers are more likely to be addicted to nicotine than their peers who smoke non-menthol cigarettes. But studies of whether menthol smokers find it more difficult to quit than non-menthol smokers have had mixed results.
In a study of more than 4,000 middle and high school students, University of Georgia researchers Jerome Legge and Jessica Muilenburg found menthol smokers smoked more cigarettes than non-menthol smokers.
And among menthol smokers, blacks smoked more than whites, they reported last year. In the USA, about 80% of black smokers prefer menthol cigarettes, compared with only about a quarter of white smokers.
"Any proposed legislation should consider the special problems of menthol and its relationship to high cigarette consumption, especially for African-American adolescents," Legge and Muilenburg concluded.
But, Legge said last week, a ban on menthol cigarettes could create an illegal market for them.
Besides kids steal their parents cigarettes to start with. It happens to already be illegal to sell cigarettes to kids.Most people do not know that the banned cigarettes were about a third more expensive that the average cigarette, kids are now smoking black and mild cigars. You cannot stop kids from smoking whatever they get their hands on. It is up to parents not the nanny state to raise their kids to make good choices.
Mention dream or djarum cigarettes to kids that smoke, they will most likely say "Whut is dream and djarum"?
Oh, and one more point I would like to make, is that the smirnoff ice tastes like soda pop. Any of you who have a problem with that needs to contact your nanny state representative on that one
Now, everybody knows why menthol flavoring wasn't banned.
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Dreams Jubilee Blend are the cherry flavored cigarettes I smoke. I was in my 40's before I started smoking them, it must be my second childhood.
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