Name: FDA moves to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars
Uploaded: 2021-04-30
Duration: 2 min 39 s
Description: The aim is to 'significantly reduce disease and death.'

The aim is to "significantly reduce disease and death."

FDA moves to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars

Health

mhm. Mental acts like a drug when it is smoked. It has anesthetic properties and qualities that helped mask the harshness and irritation of tobacco smoke flavoured tobacco, including flavors found in some cigars and cigarillos make smoking more appealing by reducing initial aversive responses, particularly for young people. And I think importantly studies suggest that mental can potentially eight nicotine's effects by increasing brain receptor levels to a greater extent than nicotine alone, making it harder to equip mental cigarettes. Yeah. Despite the tremendous progress we've made in getting people to stop smoking over the past 55 years. That progress hasn't been experienced bye. Everyone equally in the United States compared to non hispanic. White smokers, significantly fewer black smokers report long term quitting and black smokers are more likely to die of tobacco related disease than white smokers. Furthermore, 85 of all black smokers use menthol cigarettes Compared to just 30 of white smokers. And while we've seen declines in mental cigarette use among non hispanic white youth, we have not seen the same declines in youth from communities of color. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Mm mm. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm.