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[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Because of the massive amount of tax dollars gained from them, and that everyone in the senate is good friends with people who smoke. Who isn't friends or relatives of at least one smoker?

But yes. Banning just menthol is dumb. It's also pointless. Menthol is all flavored into the filter of a cigarette. You can buy $10 worth of pure menthol crystals, $5 worth of alcohol to dissolve the crystals in, use a toothpick to dip in the solution and then poke into the filter, and have enough there to make thousands of unflavored cigarettes menthol. You can convert an entire pack in 2 minutes.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You can even buy cigarette rolling machines and make them for less than half the price in the store

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