After receiving criticism from dark voters and cigarette manufacturers, the Biden administration decided to postpone a ban on nicotine tobacco.
Since 2021, President Joe Biden and his administration have been considering a looming restrictions on nicotine tobacco.
Although health officials have argued that a ban on menthol cigarettes would have” serious racial justice implications” because black smokers are far more likely than white smokers to purchase them, groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have argued that this would have” serious racial justice implications.”
Gwen Carr — the family of Eric Garner, who died in July 2014 after Daniel Pantaleo, a former New York Police Department agent, placed him in a stranglehold — has spoken out against the restrictions.
Garner was stopped outside a convenience store because police thought he had been selling exempt smoking.
Carr noted that the menthol ban could lead to” an increased negative encounters with police in communities of color” in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY ) from November 2023.
Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra stated in a statement that” the public opinion time has yielded an enormous amount of feedback, including from different parts of the legal rights and criminal justice action.” It is obvious that there will be more discussions to be had, and they will get a lot longer.
According to the New York Times, smoke manufacturers and other opponents have pushed back against the restrictions.
Anti-tapping organizations filed a lawsuit against the US state at the beginning of April to pressure it to carry out the ban on nicotine cigarettes, which appears to be at a standstill.
This was made after White House leaders announced in December 2023 that they would be reviewing a menthol cigarettes plan more carefully.
Earlier in April, a poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal  revealed that 30 % of black people had endorsed former president Donald Trump.
Despite the fact that 57 percent of black men intended to support Biden, 30 cent threw their aid behind Trump. However, 77 percent of dark women said they were going to vote for Biden, and 11 percent said they were going to vote for Trump.
Derrick Johnson, the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP), criticized Biden for not prioritizing “people.” He stated,” In an election time, officials should be evaluating folks, not financiers. The Biden Administration’s announcement today is a punch to the Black community, who continue to face unfair punishment and unfair punishment for their actions.
Let’s be clear: Johnson reaffirmed that “valuing Black life should not be used as a slave to get our citizens to the surveys, but rather a system that our frontrunners refuse to step over from.”