[NEWS.YAHOO] Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... clearly hasn't learned a thing from the failed and immoral War on Drugs - a disaster that he played a huge part in creating.
The president on Thursday ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban menthol cigarettes, a plan first reported on Wednesday by the Washington Post. Since it's a regulatory change, Congress has no say in the matter.
Anti-smoking advocates have lobbied for the ban for years, arguing correctly that the tobacco industry has targeted menthol sales at young people and Black communities.
Let's be clear: Big Tobacco is a callous, lying cabal that exists to profit off addicting people to a deadly product. But cigarettes aren't going to be made illegal overnight, just a certain flavor of cigarettes.
The ban will make menthol a prized commodity, a sought-after product whose artificial scarcity will inevitably drive up its price on non-legal markets.
A flavor will now be a crime, making criminals out of people who want some mint flavoring with their toxic tar.
This idea isn't just dumb and wholly unnecessary - it's plainly destructive to the communities it's supposed to be helping.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/01/2021 00:00 ||
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I'm going with "Obviously Stupid" as the article said. If it has to do with virtue-signaling, it wouldn't be the first time lefty-virtue signaling was misplaced and went awry.
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I was always told that menthols had more of the bad stuff™ in them, but it seems that they are just approaching this from a 'well these black people don't know any better, so we have to help them'
So menthols are just as bad as anything else, and they really are going after it because it is flavored?
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Fuck this bullshit. I smoke menthols, once you start it's very hard to go back to regular. MARK MY WORDS< THERE WILL BE BLOOD IN THE STREETS OVER THIS!
Posted by: Chris ||
05/01/2021 9:52 Comments ||
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If flavors made people want tobacco, we'd have chocolate, Life Savers™ and bubble gum flavored cigarettes. Yes, you can probably get all those as vape. Still, stupid idea.
Before I moved up to good cigars, I used to smoke cherry flavored Eriks.
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[SpectrumIEEE] Thirty-five 51 years ago today, these words marked the start of a crisis that nearly killed three astronauts in outer space. In the four days that followed, the world was transfixed as the crew of Apollo 13—Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert—fought cold, fatigue, and uncertainty to bring their crippled spacecraft home.
But the crew had an angel on their shoulders—in fact thousands of them—in the form of the flight controllers of NASA’s mission control and supporting engineers scattered across the United States.
To the outsider, it looked like a stream of engineering miracles was being pulled out of some magician’s hat as mission control identified, diagnosed, and worked around life-threatening problem after life-threatening problem on the long road back to Earth.
From the navigation of a badly damaged spacecraft to impending carbon dioxide poisoning, NASA’s ground team worked around the clock to give the Apollo 13 astronauts a fighting chance. But what was going on behind the doors of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston—now the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center—wasn’t a trick, or even a case of engineers on an incredible lucky streak. It was the manifestation of years of training, teamwork, discipline, and foresight that to this day serves as a perfect example of how to do high-risk endeavors right. More at the link
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...46th president of the U.S. 
