The Biden administration wants to ban menthol cigarettes. They have not presented any evidence that menthol cigarettes (Kools) are any worse for your health than ordinary cigarettes. The Biden people said that menthol cigarettes were favorites among the black community and outlawing them would encourage/force blacks to give up smoking. Speaking as someone who started smoking in college and smoked two packs a day for 20 years before giving it up, trying to force people to give up smoking is a lost cause. The urge for a smoke can be extremely strong, far too strong to resist. And, smoking tobacco has been legal in the US since Jamestown. Trying to force people to give it up strikes me as tyranny, a specialty of Democrats.
I know, and they know, that smoking (with or without menthol) is bad for you. Over the years a lot of people have given it up, and lot of people had not. I think this country has bigger fish to fry than getting smokers to give up smoking.
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