I want to talk to you about how policing intersects with the community and how decisions that you make as legislators, as citizens, impact how we end up dealing with people on the streets. Harris organization, known as LEAP, said the push toward menthol bans is the latest iteration of the drug war except that it more than most laws you see these days is overtly racist. When asked about Reynolds Americans funding, LEAP said its message has been the same for two decades, and if someone wants to donate to us to say it, bully for them. But other Black advocacy groups, including the NAACP, applaud efforts to ban menthol cigarettes, saying that the tobacco industry is on a narrow quest for profit, and they have been killing us along the way. Tobacco-related cancers claim 40,000 Black lives each year, at a rate 17% higher than that for whites and 74% higher than for Asians and Latinos, according to most recent data
56 Surprisingly, our data also indicate that unlike cigarettes, 34,54 nicotine yield for cigar brands did not correlate to product filter ventilation, unit weight, unit length, or tobacco weight
Being sensitive to cigarette smoke can be a common occurrence for many people
To reduce the damage done by cigarette butts in our environment, we must approach the problem from multiple angles
BMJ 112 , 5275
27 August 2020
