• WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    He’s letting them make adult choices like everybody else about their health.

    People don’t need to be saved from themselves, and it is extremely condescending to act like the black population has been bamboozled by menthol cigarettes any more or less than any other smoker.

    • mister_monster@monero.town
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      6 months ago

      And I’m all about that. I think it’s ridiculous that the president was even considering banning menthol cigarettes. But what’s even more ridiculous is that his campaign manager or whatever put a focus group together and delivered research to his desk saying “Mr president sir, if you ban newports you’re gonna lose reelection because black people won’t like it” and so he decided not to do it.