“It’s worked well for us.” until it doesn’t … If I remember, no one expected the 9/11 attacks. And 20 years of bombs and dead soldiers, Afghanistan is the same.

“There’s no terrorist group in the world that thinks about what it’s going to do and says…” You are well connected, apparently, to know the intentions of all terrorist groups… with how often the US fucks with other countries I would be very careful with my back. But keep supporting your genocide, you are good at it, I’m out.

imagine a bad opinion… zero cultural issues? nothing exists in a vacuum and the world is not black and white.

All Gazans? Are all 2.4 million members of hammas? Your response to a terrorist attack is to use phosphorus bombs or maybe kill or coerce journalists? The sensible response to a terrorist attack is to try to dismantle the group, not to turn a city into ruins and kill civilians. You don’t end an ideology with bombs, ask the United States how this attempt worked.

thank you!

freetube ftw

Sir, this is the internet, we don’t do that here.

The only problematic thing is the mental gymnastics you’re doing, we are talking about an addiction, not a profession, you are making a false equivalence. And although 85% of menthol cigarette users are black people, you are simply ignoring the other 25% and the remaining passive smokers.

This is a health issue, if the proposal were to criminalize the use of mentholated cigarettes I would see a point in your argument, but we are just talking about banning the sale, the only thing that will happen is that users of mentholated cigarettes will have to smoke something else. This is not a political issue.

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.