I think the punchline is the Biden administration was told by representatives of the tobacco industry and of certain Black organizations like the National Newspaper Association, which Ben Chavis runs, who takes money directly from the tobacco industry, that if you were to ban menthol cigarettes, you would lose Black votes
You assume this makes them far safer than a standard pack of cigarettes
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"It's the friends I would've never expected," says Cai: "high-functioning, wonderful, successful people." "As a kid," explains Cai, now 33, "I was taught 'the burnouts do that, and if you do you're not going to be a good part of society.'" Emily Atkin, a friend of mine and author of the climate crisis newsletter Heated, gauges the shift in public sentiment around smoking based on people's reactions to her electric blue tank top emblazoned with the plea "PLS DO NOT GIVE ME A CIGARETTE NO MATTER WHAT I SAY." "It is by far my most attention-grabbing shirt," she told me
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