I want to talk to you about how policing intersects with the community and how decisions that you make as legislators, as citizens, impact how we end up dealing with people on the streets. Harris organization, known as LEAP, said the push toward menthol bans is the latest iteration of the drug war except that it more than most laws you see these days is overtly racist. When asked about Reynolds Americans funding, LEAP said its message has been the same for two decades, and if someone wants to donate to us to say it, bully for them. But other Black advocacy groups, including the NAACP, applaud efforts to ban menthol cigarettes, saying that the tobacco industry is on a narrow quest for profit, and they have been killing us along the way. Tobacco-related cancers claim 40,000 Black lives each year, at a rate 17% higher than that for whites and 74% higher than for Asians and Latinos, according to most recent data
They are one of the few insects that can thrive on dried tobacco
People who use nicotine products are at a greatly increased risk of respiratory diseases, cancers (especially lung cancer), stroke, and heart disease
They should be uniquely meaningful
Especially stimulants dont go well with cannabis especially if your body is not used to them
