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FDA, in first tobacco action, bans flavors

Started by garbon, September 22, 2009, 08:42:26 PM

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ulmont

Quote from: Capetan Mihali on September 22, 2009, 10:12:46 PM
Menthols are definitely associated with the Black smoking culture, but I know plenty of gay men and lower-class white men who smoke them just as passionately as any African-American.

I used to smoke "Basic Menthols."  Talk about raw.

garbon

Quote from: ulmont on September 22, 2009, 10:15:56 PM
As does the article you posted.  :contract:

Oh I'm sorry but that's already been discussed, grandpa. :rolleyes:
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ulmont

It was worth posting twice.  I have to stay in the list now, after all.

Josquius

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Still, the bill excludes any immediate action on menthol, or mint, flavored cigarettes that are used by as many as 12 million Americans, including most African-American smokers. Lawmakers instead called on the FDA to study the issue.
:blink:
WTF?
:lol:
Weird, black culture tend to be big on the 'tough' thing yet there they are puffing menthols.
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Neil

Quote from: Tyr on September 23, 2009, 07:33:41 AM
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Still, the bill excludes any immediate action on menthol, or mint, flavored cigarettes that are used by as many as 12 million Americans, including most African-American smokers. Lawmakers instead called on the FDA to study the issue.
:blink:
WTF?
:lol:
Weird, black culture tend to be big on the 'tough' thing yet there they are puffing menthols.
It's also very big on being illogical and stupid.
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Strix

Quote from: derspiess on September 22, 2009, 09:24:20 PM
QuoteThe Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Can't we just let the decline in smoking continue its natural course, instead of wasting money on stupid billboards & faux-guerrilla tactic TV commercials?  Everyone knows smoking is bad for you.

Isn't there an increase in smoking among teens and younger adults?
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Viking



This stuff doesn't even smokeflavour the air...
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A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
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Brazen

The only flavoured tobacco I'm aware of here is shisha pipes.

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garbon

Quote from: Tyr on September 23, 2009, 07:33:41 AM
:blink:
WTF?
:lol:
Weird, black culture tend to be big on the 'tough' thing yet there they are puffing menthols.

Oh wow, you can't rely on your precious little stereotypes. :cry:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Ideologue

Quote from: Capetan Mihali on September 22, 2009, 10:12:46 PM
Cloves are the preserve of the pretentious/wannabes, at least beyond a passing smoke.

Menthols are definitely associated with the Black smoking culture, but I know plenty of gay men and lower-class white men who smoke them just as passionately as any African-American.
Well FU, Mihali. :lol:  Maybe I'm just alive with pleasure.
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MadImmortalMan

Something occurred to me. For the US manufacturers, flavored cigarettes have to be a laughably small portion of their business---except maybe for menthols. The other stuff like clove and whatnot are more or less dominated by foreign companies like Djarum. How much did the tobacco companies fight this, anyway?
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DGuller

Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 23, 2009, 01:56:08 PM
Something occurred to me. For the US manufacturers, flavored cigarettes have to be a laughably small portion of their business---except maybe for menthols. The other stuff like clove and whatnot are more or less dominated by foreign companies like Djarum. How much did the tobacco companies fight this, anyway?
Hmm, interesting point.  It does stink of hidden protectionism.

saskganesh

its an unnecessary form of protectionism, as American smokes must have 75% domestic product.  unless they have recently changed that.

American tobacco companies are likely not fighting hard as they have huge growth in both smokers and production in the ROTW.
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Josquius

Quote from: garbon on September 23, 2009, 09:10:35 AM

Oh wow, you can't rely on your precious little stereotypes. :cry:
That would be the answer to a blackguy doing menthols.
That most of them do just adds to the steryotype but makes it very freaky.
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