Anti-smoking groups are racist and probably belong to the KKK

[redrumloa]

They want to target ban cigarettes popular with black people.

Young blacks are particularly vulnerable, smoking opponents say. More than three-quarters of black adolescent and young adult smokers use Newports, a menthol cigarette produced by Lorillard, according to a 2004 study.

So black people like Menthol cigs.

The issue of race has complicated discussions of menthol, said Valerie Yerger, a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who provided testimony to the drug agency and its expert panel in 2010. Several black groups lobbied against a ban on grounds that it would discriminate against blacks, since a larger proportion of them prefer menthol cigarettes.

The racial politics are delicate, experts said, though it is not clear whether they are contributing to the slowness of the regulatory process.

Obvious racists who are probably close friends with George Zimmerman and probably members of the KKK. We need to only ban cigs popular with white people. Ban standard cigs and keep menthol legal. These racists should be locked up or maybe executed.

 

[Glaucus]

How can you be so consistently wrong about everything?

 

[redrumloa]

How can you be so consistently wrong about everything?

How am I wrong? When I am taking the politically correct stance?

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Obvious racists who are probably close friends with George Zimmerman and probably members of the KKK. We need to only ban cigs popular with white people. Ban standard cigs and keep menthol legal. These racists should be locked up or maybe executed.

Powder cocaine and crack cocaine act the same once you get them into the body but in 1986 the US passed a law that saw crack possession and usage get higher penalties than powder cocaine. "Coincidentally", crack was more commonly used among the black population and powder among the affluent white population.

Marijuana was initially banned back in 1937 because it was mostly associated with Mexicans and blacks, unlike alcohol which was re-legalized because the white people wouldn't stop using it.

Marijuana usage among whites is now about the same as among blacks but blacks are five times more likely to be arrested for possession.

I can understand the black population looking at a ban with suspicion. If possession of menthols becomes a crime then the policy will be clearly racist.

The approach that makes the most sense would be to ban American companies (and their wholly owned subsidiaries) from manufacturing menthol cigarettes. Smuggling menthols into the country or adding mentholation would likely end up in a higher priced product and that would discourage the target market from buying them.