And coinciding with the bite starting the taste began to get a little less pleasant
A ban will also lead to unconstitutional policing and other negative interactions with local law enforcement." The ACLU letter noted that "a menthol cigarette ban would disproportionately impact communities of color, result in criminalization of the market, and exacerbate mass incarceration." The ban "also risks creating large underground, illegal markets." That "would be a massive law enforcement problem for states, counties, and cities, since all states treat unlicensed sale of tobacco products as a crimeusually as a felony punishable by imprisonment." The FDA glides over that point, instead emphasizing that the agency "cannot and will not enforce against individual consumers for possession or use of menthol cigarettes." But many of those individual consumers will look for ways to continue smoking the kind of cigarettes they like, and that demand will be filled by other individuals, who in turn will be subject to criminal penalties
This all happens at staggeringly high speed, dozens of bottles per second, tens of thousands of bottles per hour, frankly unfathomable numbers of bottles per day
Retrieved July 19, 2023
On the contrary, our findings of a unique excess mortality risk associated with menthol flavouring in cigarettes provide additional scientific evidenceapart from their known impacts on initiation and cessationin support of the menthol flavour regulation in the USA and in [low- and middle-income countries]. Mentholnaturally found in peppermint or made in a labmakes tobacco products even more addictive and harder to quit
1 carton contains 10 packs of 16 cigarettes
