LOL @ everyone in the comments

“bAnNiNg MeNtHoLs Is RaCiSt!”

It is, dumbass. You just refuse to look that shit up.

Seriously, how is this racist? When exactly did menthol cigarettes become a race? I don’t understand what kind of argument you are trying to make here.

Because African American smokers tend to favor menthol over other types of cigarettes.

“In the 1950s, less than 10% of Black smokers used menthol cigarettes. Today, after decades of tobacco industry targeting, that number is 85%. Menthol cigarettes continue to be heavily advertised, widely available and priced cheaper in Black communities."

www.tobaccofreekids.org/…/menthol-report

Wait… generally racists tend to want the race they hate to diminish, you banning a vice that is mainly associated with this race doesn’t seem like an act of racism to me, but the opposite.

Furthermore “Another thought behind the Biden and FDA ban is that 85% of black voters use menthols. It’s been found that black men in America have the highest lung cancer death rate in America. Black Americans are also less likely than white Americans to be diagnosed with lung cancer at an early, treatable stage.”

And according to this article or this article, although both types of cigarettes are equally harmful chemically, mentholated cigarettes encourage the habit of smoking more and inhaling more increasing the consumption of carcinogenic chemicals.

So if we ban minorities from the logging industry, that’s the opposite of racism? It’s the deadliest occupation on earth…

Fisherman, truck drivers, roofers… ban minorities from all of it to save their lives, because that’s the opposite of racism.

See the flaw in the logic here? Targeting a demographic is, by the simplest definition, an act of racism. Equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome. Banning minorities from entire industries would be to their ultimate benefit, and is obviously racist. Like Jim Crow obvious.

Your point is very problematical.