The gov can Ban menthol if they want, I'm ready already

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[–]proc0 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Oh is there a harmful effect from that flavor? It's strange only now they're discovering this. The consistent thing would be to add more warning labels and or tax it. I get de-incentivizing some drugs, but banning it will only add them to the black market.

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Iirc the menthol creates micro tears in the tissue and the smoke further irritates it. Clove cigarettes have the same problem. I smoked those for a bit in college till I started coughing up blood.

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Where u finding that info? Cuz when i looked it up i only found the reason for banning menthol was that menthol smokers would smoke more and apparently had a harder time sensing they were harming their lungs since the menthol flavor masks the bad feelings that one normally gets from smoking too much. So yeah pretty sure micro tears thing is BS.

So i'd say either the same thing that happens to other people happens to you, where you smoke too much and the menthol flavor masks the harmful feelings. Or it's just in your head because you know menthol is being banned and so you associated it with being more dangerous.

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There are several reasons given for the banning of menthol cigarettes, one of which is the masking of the harshness of the smoke.

Other research suggests that menthol increases airflow in our respiratory system, affects the way nicotine interacts with the receptors, how it is metabolised, and how we withdraw from the nicotine. All these things can contribute to further and worsened addiction.

I had been under the impression these were mostly myth, but there does seem to be something behind it. Originally I thought the bans were due to the glorification of smoking by making it more flavoursome and attractive to non-smokers to start.

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Quit smoking a few years ago, by the point i was regularly smoking menthols when i tried non-menthol it felt like garbage lol. So yeah could be something to that, thankfully never smoked too much, i think like 6-8 cigs a day was my average and i also smoked on and off. AKA Mark Twain's quote "quitting smoking is easy, i've done it hundreds of times". The rare times i dream of having a cig, it's definitely a menthol.