Menthol is racist
Betcha didn't know that! Apparently there is a bill before Congress to regulate what goes into cigarettes:
"Because the bill would ban the use of all other flavoring additives (like cloves and peppermint) but permit the use of menthol, and since menthol is overwhelming used by African American smokers -- including Black children -- it has already been damned for being racially insensitive if not outright racist by the Congressional Black Caucus, African American former HHH Secretary Louis W. Sullivan and most other former HHS Secretaries, the National African American Tobacco Prevention Network, and ASH, America's first antismoking organization.
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Did you follow that? I am not sure I did but the idea seems to be that menthol encourages black kids to smoke and smoking is bad for you so allowing menthol in cigarettes is racist. When your argument is flimsy, the race card is always a great help. The article also claims that cigarettes are dangerously radioactive.
The article is by by Banzhaf, a lawyer notorious for far-out lawsuits about "threats" to health emanating from everyday products. I gather that his activities have made him a rich man.
8 comments:
Menthol racist...
Hmm that's a little more like using the race card in my books.
people smoke all the time, geez some people are so damn touchy.
Is there a Congressional White Caucus? And just how many Africans are in the National African American Tobacco Prevention Network? In fact, i wonder just how many people are actually in that, and many of these other activist organizations!
While having dinner recently with a corporate attorney friend of mine, the topic of these fancy-sounding organizations came up. I said that i was amazed at how many different (and official) sounding names they come up with. He advised me that in most states, it only takes two people to form an organization and they can use any name they like, so long as it's not already copyrighted.
He also informed me that many of these groups, no matter how many people are involved in them, can actually get govt. funding if "they're the right kind of people"! What he was refering to was left-wing activists, especially black activists.
Some day perhaps, the American people will put their TV remotes down and wake up to all the things that are going on around them, most of which are paid for with their tax money. You don't think they will? No, neither do i.
"overwhelming used by African American smokers -- including Black children"
Are only the adults African American and not their children? (assuming they know whether the children are theirs)
If the Black Caucus want to see some real racist they should rush in the bathroonm and look in the mirror. Stormewaters
"Are only the adults African American and not their children? (assuming they know whether the children are theirs)"
OR CARE!
Tobacco ash is indeed radioactive to a level slightly above background radiation.
This is a purely natural phenomenon however, and is true of any ashes you care to check out.
Plants extract radioactive elements (as they do other trace elements) from soil, which are usually left behind in the ash when they're burned, concentrating them further.
The levels involved however are so low as to be utterly inconsequential (the ash heaps near coal fired powerplants are far more radioactive, and noone cares about that (in fact few people even know it)).
The World the Good Lord put us in is a huge natural "mine field" - what's He thinking I wonder!?
anonymous 5,
do you think anyone cares about facts and truth? The people of this country are gulping down the Kool-Aid as fast as the left and the media can pour it! And after Nov. we'll be awash in it.
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