Should,Menthol,Cigarettes,Proh DIY Should Menthol Cigarettes Be Prohibited
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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:#0400;mso-fareast-language:#0400;mso-bidi-language:#0400;}Heres a word of advice to the Food and DrugAdministration (FDA) regulators deciding this week whether or not to banmenthol cigarettessmoking: Cool it. If the FDA sows this wind, I fear we will reap thewhirlwind. It was only last year that the agency prohibited thesale of all other flavored cigarettes, but would outlawing menthol be a goodidea? The FDAs power to ban it goes back to the 2009Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act the law giving the Foodand Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco. That billcontained a provision barring all flavorings except menthol. At first glance, the decision to ban other flavoringsmay seem curious. After all, the only real player in the flavored cigarettemarket was, and is, menthol, which is smoked by about 30 percent of ournations 45 million adult famoussmokers and perhaps three-quarters of African-American smokers. Theother flavored cigarettes such as cherry, banana, and chocolate are smokedby hardly anyone. But the law finally giving the FDA jurisdiction overtobacco products was cobbled together over the course of some years. And, whilethe negotiators were such classic Washington figures as Sen. Ted Kennedy(D-Mass.), Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), and representatives of public healthgroups led by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Matt Myers, also involvedwere executives of Altria, Americas largest cigarette company (formerly PhilipMorris). How Altria got a say in the behind-the-scenesdecisions about regulating cigarettes is a tale for another day, but heres theshort version: without its support, there would have been no bill at all. So, if Altria was the one who wanted menthol spared,does it then follow that we should outlaw it? Generally, whats good for BigTobacco is bad for everyone else. But we at ACSH decided to investigate thequestion by commissioning a study to evaluate the actual health effects ofmenthol in cigarettes. Our peer-reviewed position paper was released earlierthis year and was communicated to the responsible committee of the Center forTobacco Products (CTP), the division of the FDA established by the new law.The results surprised us: extensive review of therelevant literature documented the absence of adverse health effectsattributable to menthol in cigarettes. As compared to non-menthol cigarettes,we found no increased risk of cancer, heart disease, lung disease, or any ofthe myriad other debilitating or lethal effects of smoking. Some members of the public health community, includingsome members of the committee charged with advising the FDA on menthols fate,have asserted that other softer (less reliably measured) factors call for aban, such as lower quit rates and higher youth preference for menthols. Anotherconcern is the higher rate of lung cancer among black smokers. While this discrepancy is real, the higher rate has notbeen found to be causally related to menthol-flavoring in cigarettes.Why not just ban menthol anyway, given the concernsswirling about it? Who cares what the medical facts say about menthol wouldnt a ban just upset the cigarette-makers who addict young people tomenthols, cutting into their profits? Unfortunately, that is not the major downside of amenthol ban. Given the fact that modelssmokers who prefer menthol rarely change to non-menthol, the morelikely scenario post-ban is the development of a massive, widespread blackmarket in contraband menthols, thanks to criminal smugglers supplying plentifulsmokes to anyone wholl pay the premium for them no questions asked, no I.D.cards checked, no taxes paid. Marketing Manager World Technology Network 2013 H Street, NY, 10001, USA 559-4812 http://www.smokersworld.info/
Should,Menthol,Cigarettes,Proh