Bonus: Should Biden ban menthol cigarettes?

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Cigarette smoking, like so much else, has political and racial implications

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Nov 12, 2023

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The Food and Drug administration has announced that it will ban the manufacture of menthol cigarettes as part of a broader prohibition of flavored cigarettes, a policy that must be approved by President Biden.

The change is being hailed by some civil rights activists because of how black Americans were targeted by tobacco companies for decades via racis…

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