Niggers don’t vote, they either assigned blacks votes for Biden as part of their fraud or are just lying in the official statistics to influence public consciousness as ever.
Only the retailers who sell menthol cigarettes, flavored cigars or flavored vapes. The ban does not apply to possession or use, only the selling of it.
“As we continue to push to protect Black lives, we must put an end to one of the most pernicious destroyers of Black health and lives: deadly menthol cigarettes.”
Ah yes, the age old "black people are too dumb to make their own decisions" argument, straight from the party of anti-racism(tm)
This doesn't make sense on any level. The stated reason is nonsense but I can't think of a real reason that makes sense. Maybe it's just practicing power for powers sake.
Remember one of their dem pillars is to socialize medicine. When the state is paying for healthcare, preventative policy (your freedom of choice be damned) just starts to make financial sense. It's one in a million steps to banning all smoking, alcohol, fatty or sweet foods, etc. It'll keep the lifestyle issues treatment costs way down so they can pocket more of it.
Several years ago they changed something in the regulation surrounding how they were made or what could be in them. Djarum Blacks were my go to smoke. After that legislation went through none of the packs I could get my hands on tasted the same. The last good pack I smoked was after I graduated in 2009 and took a trip to New York with my friends to celebrate.
It's a damn shame. I miss smoking cloves on a nice summer night.
I lowkey feel sad I missed out on clove cigarettes. I don't even smoke cigarettes, but I like the taste of cloves and am tired of the Fed banning shit FoR tHe ChIlDrEn
You are not defending people's right to make their own decisions by defending an industry whose primary strategy to secure repeat sales is to turn its customers into drug addicts. People making uncoerced, informed purchasing decisions is the last thing the tobacco industry wants; they are deliberately using the withdrawal symptoms from their product to punish you for not giving them more money.
The cigarette industry is a very well known evil, for sure. I am not defending them per se, I’m arguing that in a free society we should have the freedom to make bad decisions. Cigarettes have a very well known long term health risk and are addictive. Key here is that the risks are highly publicized and occur gradually. There’s time for someone to try smoking, decide they made a bad decision, and quit without adding any further risk to the risk that they’ve taken up to that point.
Lots of products that are allowed to be sold are known to be bad for you. If the government bans everything that presents a risk over time or with heavy use I worry that people will stop thinking for themselves as much. “This product was not banned by the government therefore it must be safe.”
Now to be clear I’m not recommending that anyone should be smoking. I’ve never smoked, the risks were clearly conveyed to me in school and are printed on every pack of cigarettes and I don’t think it’s worth it. I also think that if a product has a high chance of injuring someone right away or in the short term, like if it’s known to explode and kill someone since it’s badly built, or if it has a choking hazard for kids and is intended for kids, those should be recalled and fixed or banned.
I may be off-base here but that’s my reasoning. Unrelated to reasoning, my emotional response to seeing this headline is that I feel like once the government bans cigarettes they’re going to start banning all sorts of other products since they’ve been emboldened to take more control over people’s lives. That’s a slippery slope fallacy though so it’s not a good argument.
And my argument is that the freedom to become addicted to nicotine infringes upon your freedom to make decisions in the future. It's similar to usury in that regard - the government denies you the right to borrow money at extortionate rates because doing so will put you in a hole that you might never escape.
He only banned the menthol ones. Because LITERALLY the goal is to only do good things for black people, not anyone else. It's "black lives matter" for a reason - only black lives matter.
So Kamala gets to lock up even more Black men?
Remember that about 89 percent of Blacks voted for Joe Crime Bill Biden and Kamala Prosecutor Harris.
Clown world.
As long as Democrats continue to push welfare spending I don't see any of these voters ever changing.
The Black vote is the most inelastic subset of America.
Give them free money and the right to destroy what they want without repercussions and they'll vote for you want.
Once they give felons and illegals the vote it'll never end.
Niggers don’t vote, they either assigned blacks votes for Biden as part of their fraud or are just lying in the official statistics to influence public consciousness as ever.
And more will be killed by selling black market cigs. But remember, "you ain't black if you didn't vote for Biden".
Menthols should be safe, legal and rare.
Why? I dont smoke so i dont know what menthols are about
It's just a reference to Hillary saying "abortions should be safe, legal and rare" in the 90s.
Only the retailers who sell menthol cigarettes, flavored cigars or flavored vapes. The ban does not apply to possession or use, only the selling of it.
Ah yes, the age old "black people are too dumb to make their own decisions" argument, straight from the party of anti-racism(tm)
They actually said it lmao
Black people: BLM! Black power! Fuck whitey! We own this shit now!
Literally any Democrat: strolls up and slaps the fuck out of him
Literally any Democrat: You're going to vote Democrat next time around, right boy?
Black people: yes massa
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This doesn't make sense on any level. The stated reason is nonsense but I can't think of a real reason that makes sense. Maybe it's just practicing power for powers sake.
Well, going after smokers in the first place was the first experiment in that.
Remember one of their dem pillars is to socialize medicine. When the state is paying for healthcare, preventative policy (your freedom of choice be damned) just starts to make financial sense. It's one in a million steps to banning all smoking, alcohol, fatty or sweet foods, etc. It'll keep the lifestyle issues treatment costs way down so they can pocket more of it.
I cannot wait until the Biden administration bans Sprite.
Smokers are a net cost savings for the health care system though because they die young and they die quickly.
It’s a virtue signal with no real opposition. Or... it’s conditioning to set up a slippery slope of behavior criminalization
I oppose it. I'm still salty them ruining clove cigarettes.
are cloves banned? I don't recall seeing many around, but most were not even tobacco-based.
Several years ago they changed something in the regulation surrounding how they were made or what could be in them. Djarum Blacks were my go to smoke. After that legislation went through none of the packs I could get my hands on tasted the same. The last good pack I smoked was after I graduated in 2009 and took a trip to New York with my friends to celebrate.
It's a damn shame. I miss smoking cloves on a nice summer night.
I lowkey feel sad I missed out on clove cigarettes. I don't even smoke cigarettes, but I like the taste of cloves and am tired of the Fed banning shit FoR tHe ChIlDrEn
It makes "sense" if you're a woke retard.
So instead of going to the cigarette store the absent father is going out to get some milk or juice?
Next week: Biden to ban chocolate milk.
I’m so sick of the paternalism of the left. Let the people make their own decisions!
You are not defending people's right to make their own decisions by defending an industry whose primary strategy to secure repeat sales is to turn its customers into drug addicts. People making uncoerced, informed purchasing decisions is the last thing the tobacco industry wants; they are deliberately using the withdrawal symptoms from their product to punish you for not giving them more money.
The cigarette industry is a very well known evil, for sure. I am not defending them per se, I’m arguing that in a free society we should have the freedom to make bad decisions. Cigarettes have a very well known long term health risk and are addictive. Key here is that the risks are highly publicized and occur gradually. There’s time for someone to try smoking, decide they made a bad decision, and quit without adding any further risk to the risk that they’ve taken up to that point.
Lots of products that are allowed to be sold are known to be bad for you. If the government bans everything that presents a risk over time or with heavy use I worry that people will stop thinking for themselves as much. “This product was not banned by the government therefore it must be safe.”
Now to be clear I’m not recommending that anyone should be smoking. I’ve never smoked, the risks were clearly conveyed to me in school and are printed on every pack of cigarettes and I don’t think it’s worth it. I also think that if a product has a high chance of injuring someone right away or in the short term, like if it’s known to explode and kill someone since it’s badly built, or if it has a choking hazard for kids and is intended for kids, those should be recalled and fixed or banned.
I may be off-base here but that’s my reasoning. Unrelated to reasoning, my emotional response to seeing this headline is that I feel like once the government bans cigarettes they’re going to start banning all sorts of other products since they’ve been emboldened to take more control over people’s lives. That’s a slippery slope fallacy though so it’s not a good argument.
And my argument is that the freedom to become addicted to nicotine infringes upon your freedom to make decisions in the future. It's similar to usury in that regard - the government denies you the right to borrow money at extortionate rates because doing so will put you in a hole that you might never escape.
Fair point! I haven’t previously considered that argument.
Everybody I know that smokes menthols plan on smoking regular cigs if they ban menthol so I doubt this is gonna stop people from smoking
why do you think you even have the right to do so, joe? is it the dementia?
He only banned the menthol ones. Because LITERALLY the goal is to only do good things for black people, not anyone else. It's "black lives matter" for a reason - only black lives matter.