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In reply to the discussion: Biden Delays Ban on Menthol Cigarettes [View all]Aristus
(66,649 posts)9. My own explanation for that has always been (and this is anecdotal, not based on any data or polling, etc.)
that tobacco requires an entire industry in order to be profitable. Cultivating tobacco is immensely labor intensive. Then there's the processing, the adding of thousands of chemicals to increase its addictiveness, manufacturing, packaging, and shipping. Not to mention advertising. It needs an industrial infrastructure to flourish.
Meanwhile, marijuana can pretty much be grown anywhere by anyone, inexpensively, under a number of different climate conditions and soil properties. It is, after all, a weed in the most literal sense. Cannabis growers don't have the financial clout to lobby Congress for a re-scheduling.
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And marijuana remains on the Schedule 1 list. Why does tobacco companies' profits outweigh public safety?
kysrsoze
Apr 26
#2
My own explanation for that has always been (and this is anecdotal, not based on any data or polling, etc.)
Aristus
Apr 26
#9
How many more deaths will occur before Menthol gets banned like every other flavor was 15 years ago ?
MichMan
Apr 26
#5
Good idea to not give the repukes and their orange maga leaders ammunition to attack the administration and use it to
kimbutgar
Apr 26
#10
I'm trying very hard not to interject my opinion here. I've typed 5 posts and deleted them. But, I'll stay mum.
keopeli
Apr 26
#12
Menthol is more than a flavoring for cigarettes. Menthol (aka. mint) opens the breathing channels.
Earth-shine
Apr 26
#13
Big Tobacco is lying that African-Americans In NY will be policed for menthol cigarettes.
Marcuse
Apr 26
#16
If the majority of people except Big Tobacco is in favor of a ban, why delay it ?
MichMan
Apr 27
#17
I never saw the point in this. All cigarettes are bad. Ban them all or don't ban them.
Vinca
Apr 27
#20
Embracing an "all or nothing" philosophy generally results in accomplishing nothing *
Oopsie Daisy
Apr 27
#23