Do you recall how worried the Biden administration was about the health of dark smokers?
However, it seems that the immediate need to assist black folks has taken a backseat as the presidential election draws near. The White House has once more delayed a proposed ban on nicotine tobacco, which raises concerns about President Biden’s devotion to “health disparities.”
When you give up on your terrible peppermint ban because you are so worried about the dark vote. photograph. twitter.com/9cWNokAImZ
— TimOnPoint (@TimOnPoint ) April 26, 2024
In 2021, the FDA announced it was going to ban menthol cigarettes for the benefit of dark Americans, who, the company said, are most likely to smoke them.
” According to the FDA, nearly 85 % of Black smokers use menthol cigarettes, compared to just 30 % of white smokers”, NBC News reports. Black people have the highest rate of lung cancer deaths in the United States, and both Black men and women are far less good than white Americans to be diagnosed with the disease at an early stage, when it is frequently more reversible.
The FDA provided more information about its laws for the proposed ban in 2022.
According to NBC News, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf claimed that the plan may help prevent older people from starting smoking and reduce disease and death during legislative testimony.
It’s interesting how votes can change issues.
Ownership: Biden has decided that black people can continue to smoke Newports until the November vote. If he wins his strategy is to ban menthol cigarettes. A Trump administration is the only chance dark peppermint fans have. photograph. twitter.com/kSZdix3lsw
— @amuse ( @amuse ) April 27, 2024
In December, the White House delayed its planned restrictions on nicotine tobacco.
Although some Black leaders, leading lawmakers, and state officials refute the proposed restrictions and claim that cigarette companies are funding and reviving those fears, The New York Times reported that the concerns were “generated by concerns that Black smokers will become the targets of intense police tactics.”
According to The Times, Mr. Biden’s views on the “politics of banning mint cigarettes are delicat.”
” He never afford to look as though he is condescending to Black citizens, who have long been a crucial Democratic constituency”, according to the store. According to recent surveys,” Black voters are increasingly disconnected from the Democratic Party, and even some of Mr. Biden’s supporters have expressed concern that a lack of joy among African Americans will prevent them from the elections.”
Xavier Becerra, the director of the department of health and human companies, announced the suspension of the ban on Friday.
” There are still more interactions to have, and that will get significantly more time”, Becerra said, according to NBC News.
Anti-smoking and heath advocates were swift to express their “dismay.”
We know menthol cigarettes are incredibly addictive &, risky.
We are aware that major tobacco companies precisely target Black children with menthol cigarettes.
We do n’t need more discussion, we need a ban @US_FDA. photograph. twitter.com/F4AI4cCcmi
— Rep. Barbara Lee ( @RepBarbaraLee ) April 26, 2024
” The American Lung Association’s President and CEO Harold Wimmer said the firm is’ greatly disappointed’ that the White House keeps delaying motion”, NBC News information.
President Biden loses an extraordinary opportunity to stop the dying and disease linked to cigarette use every day, according to Wimmer in a statement. The extraordinary health disparities in who uses tobacco products in the United States would have been eliminated by ending the sale of nicotine cigarettes, according to the statement.
The administration has failed to take decisive action to remove these dangerous, addictive items from the market, according to Nancy Brown, CEO of the American Heart Association, and more than a decade after releasing proposed regulations that were supported by substantial clinical data. The administration’s inaction allows the tobacco industry to continue aggressively marketing these products and entice and make new users addicted.
Carol McGruder, co- chair of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council, was more direct.
” If the Biden Administration believed that Black lives matter, they would have ended the sale of menthol- flavored cigarettes”, McGruder said in a statement. Instead, they appear to be bowing to Big Tobacco, which has systematically abused our nation’s population for generations.
” Hundreds of thousands of Black Americans will die in the years to come because of today’s inaction”, she said. ” Shame on you, President Biden”!
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