'But our fight is far from over – that's why the New York City Council must take up Council Woman Rita Joseph's bill (Intro 577) and end the sale of menthol-flavored tobacco products.'
of all flavored tobacco products — including menthol cigarettes. Banning menthol and all other flavored products would save the lives of thousands of New Yorkers — mostly Black and brown residents who smoke— and our children would be much less likely to pick up the deadly addiction.
Big Tobacco spent decades aggressively marketing flavored tobacco products, especially menthol, to our communities. So it’s no accident that most of the smokers who use menthol cigarettes are Black and brown – despite the opposition’s claim that such a ban would be discriminatory because menthols are the “preferred” tobacco products of our community.
Not only is this an issue of racial justice – to make it an even simpler task, this is an overwhelmingly popular bill: Three out of fiveMany New Yorkers want to see this deadly product taken off the market so their children and grandchildren do not become addicted to these cancer sticks.
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