Trump administration Food and Drug Administration (FDA) He formally withdrew the proposed rule by seeking to ban menthol cigarettes, after the Biden administration said that he intended to do the ban to become a reality after years of advocating a smoking group.
The efforts to ban the menthol cigarettes are ongoing for more administration, but in April 2021, the FDA administration Biden announced plans to finalize the rules. This move was welcomed by praise for the advocate against smoking, such as the Truth Initiative, which claims that menthol in cigarettes makes them more dependent and disproportionately affects minority communities.
AND Biden administration After that, she delayed the implementation of the concern that it took more time to consider public comments and concerns.
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President Biden and Mentol Cigarette (Getty Images)
But a regulatory submission from the president Donald Trump The Office for Management and Budget, which oversees the federal procedure for adopting the rules, has reduced the hope that the prohibition can be returned soon. According to the submission, Trump crossed the abolition of the proposed rule during his first day in power.
When he arrived for a comment, the FDA quoted current communication freezing imposed on all sub-agencies departments of health care and human services.
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“It is deeply disappointing that the FDA rule forbidding Mentol’s cigarettes has not been completed in a timely manner and is now withdrawn,” the campaign for children without tobacco states in a statement. “We strongly support the removal of menthol cigarettes to end the decade, the predatory marketing of these deadly tobacco industry’s tobacco products to children, black Americans and other communities.”
Newport cigarette packages were seen on the shelf at the Flatbush neighborhood on April 29, 2021. In Brooklyn Boroughh of New York.
The campaign announced that it would remain dedicated to the construction of the certificate of menthol cigarettes throughout the country, noting that “it is more critical than ever before the states and cities intensify their efforts to end the sale of menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products.”
Those who cause menthol ban, meanwhile, claim that the move could create a huge black cigarette market. The people against the prohibition are also afraid of the influence that could be on Police in minority communities.
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The New York woman holds a sign on the stairs of the City Hall on March 9, 2023 in New York. Members of the mothers of the movement, a group of women whose African -American children were killed by police officers or weapons violence, held a rally against racism, inequality and policies aimed at color people.
“Remember Eric Garner? The New York cigarette taxes have created an underground market in careless individual cigarettes called” Loosies “. In 2014, police informed the 43-year-old Eric Garner who sold Loosies on the corner of the street, and The cop dug his death as he repeated “I can’t breathe.” wrote After the Administration of Biden moved to the finalization of the ban.
“With menthol cigarettes prevailing among black and Latin American Americans, expect the police to focus their attention on minority communities. This could be even more inequality in the criminal judiciary.”
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While Trump signaled that he was against the ban on cigarette menthols, the president acted during his first term to ban most of the aromatized e-cigaret pods used in one-time nicotine vapes. However, although the ban has banned the future sales of nicotine patrons with flavored sweets and fruits, it has enabled continuous sales of pods that are either menthol or tobacco flavored.
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