ok, so maybe kanye was right*
and i hate saying that because hearing “i told you so” from him would be sooooo annoying. but check this out: congress is trying to pass the first legislation regulating tobacco. the proposed legislation gives the food and drug administration the “the power to oversee tobacco products, [and] would try to reduce smoking’s allure to young people by banning most flavored cigarettes, including clove and cinnamon.” the menthol cigarette is exempt from this legislation “even though menthol masks the harsh taste of cigarettes for beginners and may make it harder for the addicted to kick the smoking habit.” menthols are exempt from the legislation because tobacco industry gets quite a bit of revenue from the sale of the tobacco (about $17.5B per annum).
for quite some time, public health authorities have worried that menthol might be a factor in high cancer rates in african-americans. “the use of menthol cigarettes is disproportionately an african-american phenomenon” (75% of cigarettes smoked are menthol) — due to decades of advertising aimed at black consumers so say the critics. the exclusion of menthol sounds ludicrous to me. i’m just saying it would be like if the gun lobby was able to prevent trigger locks (child safety locks) from being added to guns because it would cut into our rights or (omg) margins. oh…er, ah, scratch that.
* i’m referring here to kanye’s response to hurricane katrina. if you don’t remember it, be like mariah and search for it on yoouuuuutube, youuuuutube.
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this is one of the worst things I have ever heard!