War On Menthol Cigarettes

Today's article about the coming war on menthol cigarettes.

Last year, shortly after the Food and Drug Administration has received legislative authorization to set the tobacco, tobacco smoking, "thinks" it is forbidden - in the name of children.

This is largely a share of advertising by Twista Lime, Kauai Kolada and the taste of cigarettes, which was reinforced less than one percent of the cigarette market, and most factory production again when the smoke flavor FDA announced restrictions.

Now the FDA has begun a more intense after Login menthol smoke.

Perhaps the sense of an attack on smoking is the practice, because the risk is much higher now. In pursuit of menthol smoke, the government tried to ban smoking 30 per cent of the market at this time.

Like the flavor of smoke, supporters of the ban say the bulb cool clips of people smoking. This time, not to say that children bulb target, critics also throw a race card in a mix of music is like smoking menthols liked about three quarters of smokers blacks.

This coming war on menthols is a study in contradictions that will affect all Americans regardless of race and whether they smoke.

First and foremost, this 21st-century attempt at Prohibition will be a boon for smugglers. Cigarettes are already recognized by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as the likely “number-one black market commodity in the world.”

Cigarette smuggling — now largely focused on avoiding the many taxes imposed on tobacco — already got a boost in the late ’90s when additional fees were added to comply with the tobacco industry’s settlement deal with state attorneys general. If menthol cigarettes are banned entirely, a new and extremely lucrative market will open up.

According to the ATF, more than $100,000 can be made right now from just a simple minivan full of contraband cigarettes smuggled into New York City. This puts money into the hands of the mob and even would-be terrorists while simultaneously depriving straining governments of tax revenue.

By the way, the Lorillard Tobacco Company, which sells these cigarettes, estimates that outlawing menthol cigarettes would reduce state and federal tax revenues by approximately $40 billion.

Don’t forget that someone selling homemade or smuggled menthol cigarettes out of the trunk of a car is also probably not very concerned about asking for proof of age. This means that creating a new underground market for cigarettes could conceivably increase underage access to tobacco products.

And don’t expect these smuggled smokes will undergo the quality checks that their currently legal counterparts face.

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