Menthol cigarettes may end up fading away like smoke.
The Food and Drug Administration is proposing a rule banning menthol in the production of cigarettes.
Officials say this is a necessary step to help protect public health.
Nearly 19-million people smoke menthol cigarettes, and according to the FDA, most of them are minorities.
In the black community;
– Nearly 85% of all non-Hispanic Black smokers use menthol cigarettes, compared to
30% of non-Hispanic White smokers.
– From 2011 to 2018, declines in menthol cigarette use were observed among non-Hispanic White youth but not among non-Hispanic Black or Hispanic youth.
– studies estimate that 324,000 to 654,000 smoking-attributable deaths overall of the number would be avoided over the course of 40 years. Of that number 92,000 to
238,000 would affect the African American community.
The CDC says overall smoking rates hit an all-time low in 2018; however, smoking is still the top cause of preventable death.
Dr. Carissa Baker Smith, the spokesperson for the association of Black Cardiologists, joins me now from Ellicott City, Maryland.
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