Ok, Mister President, let me see if I have this straight.

You, with the backing of Phillip Morris, have banned the sale of clove cigarettes, and other flavored cigs.

Except, you are exempting Menthol cigarettes. Menthol isn't a flavor? No, it's a flavor. Here's why not menthol:
- Phillip Morris manufactures menthols, so it would hurt their bottom line if those were banned
- Menthols are popular with the black community, and that wouldn't work well for Obama. Can you imagine? lol

The idea behind banning flavored cigs is that these are preferred by youth. But we know that menthols are popular in the black community. So is that to say black youth are not worth protecting? That is what this bill implies.

All we have here is an anti-competitive measure, and an expansion of federal power. It's targeting imported products, exempting popular domestic products, and declaring that federal power now supersedes state power on this issue.

Argh. And they wonder why we don't vote. It's because no matter who you pick, they find a way to screw things up.

shut up and stick to what you're good at

It's as good a plan as any.

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