What is this? We want to ban cloves to stop kids from smoking but are allowing Menthols (which are *far* more popular and notably cheaper and more widely available) to stay on the market? WTF?
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8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009
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Just to add on, I am going to post this clip for those that do not want to follow the link: "Menthol-flavored products account for about 28 percent of all cigarettes sold in the United States, compared with 0.09 percent for clove cigarettes, according to the Specialty Tobacco Council, a trade group in Winston-Salem, North Carolina."
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Well, as long as they don't ban them for cooking, I don't care.
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It won't work...kids don't start smoking for GOOD flavor anyways - if that was the case they'd just buy candy....... I think the govt is becoming way too controlling
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It's a lot easier to ban a small and possibly emerging market than it is to ban a long term and much larger existing market. Not complicated at all.
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I used to smoke cloves and I'm here to say that they were damn good. I started with them in my late teens. . Also, I went on to smoke other cigarettes later in life. . That said, I find it remarkable that we would consider an outright ban for some but not all spice-flavored cigarettes, particularly when the ban will only affect foreign-made cigarettes. That's basic protectionism as far as I can tell. . Whether 'kreteks' are worse than US cigarettes is debatable but I wonder how accurate the statistics are since a larger percentage of them are unfiltered than are American cigarettes. I would want to know exactly what is being compared to what. . Unmentioned in all of this is that clove cigarettes are associated with certain subcultures, most notably the 'Goths'. Whether this has anything to do with why these cigarettes are targeted I don't know, but I felt it should be mentioned.
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Not to mention model car and airplane glue....
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