It's a racial segregationist and a cop being tasked with helping black people. They could do the thing which helps black people but hurts their lifelong political projects, legalising drugs so lives aren't destroyed. Orrrrr they could do the liberal thing and scold black people for consumer choices offered to them by people like Joe Biden to deal with stresses forced on them by people like Kamala Harris. You won't find a single homeless person in New York sipping on a large soda. We fixed it. You won't see a single black person smoking a menthol cigarette while watching their neighbours be murdered by police. We fixed it.
It started around the time when it stopped being profitable to recommend cigarettes as healthy to white people. Civil rights wins created a consumer class in the black community that they shifted to under the guise that it was a status symbol instead of a health supplement.
Menthol cigarettes are predominantly used by black smokers due to tobacco industry marketing campaigns that specifically targeted them.
So then wouldn't it be good to ban them? Smoking cigarettes is highly regulated, and discouraged with great success here.
It's a racial segregationist and a cop being tasked with helping black people. They could do the thing which helps black people but hurts their lifelong political projects, legalising drugs so lives aren't destroyed. Orrrrr they could do the liberal thing and scold black people for consumer choices offered to them by people like Joe Biden to deal with stresses forced on them by people like Kamala Harris. You won't find a single homeless person in New York sipping on a large soda. We fixed it. You won't see a single black person smoking a menthol cigarette while watching their neighbours be murdered by police. We fixed it.
I hear what you're saying. Yeah, they could prioritize way more pressing and useful things, definitely.
But why? I mean, why? Wtf
cause the menthol numbs the throat a little and lets you smoke more. more smoking more $$$.
It started around the time when it stopped being profitable to recommend cigarettes as healthy to white people. Civil rights wins created a consumer class in the black community that they shifted to under the guise that it was a status symbol instead of a health supplement.