WSJ: Banning Menthol Cigarettes

WSJ: Banning Menthol Cigarettes

Does Biden want to torture all Americans or does he just want Black folks to suffer?

The Biden administration is reversing course on its plan to ban menthol cigarettes, after the White House weighed the potential public-health benefits of banning minty smokes against the political risk of angering some Black voters in an election year.

Biden is polling poorly with Black voters, and Democrats are worried about losing that demographic.  It’s hard to believe anyone would float this idea without understanding it would reduce Biden’s chance of winning.

The proposed ban has generated much feedback from the civil rights and criminal justice movements, said Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. “It’s clear that there are still more conversations to have, and that will take significantly more time,” he said in a statement.

Biden apparently thinks Black folks are too dumb to understand that statement means that menthol cigarettes will be banned early in a Biden second term.

Alternatively, Biden thinks that Republicans are too dumb to capitalize on this authoritarian policy.  He may be right about that.