Eighty national public health groups, including the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Preventative Medicine, placed a full-page ad in Sunday’s edition of the Washington Post in support of a federal ban on menthol in cigarettes and all flavored cigars.

“The answer is clear,” the full-page ad says. “Saving lives starts by ending the sale of menthol cigarettes and all flavored cigars.

“Smoking kills nearly half a million people in the United States each year, and these addictive, deadly products are a big part of the problem. The FDA and White House have our full support to release lifesaving rules prohibiting menthol cigarettes and all flavored cigars.”

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    I don’t smoke but isn’t flavored vape essentially the same and that is legal?

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      Lots of places are banning those too.

      Which is really stupid, because they’re also banning the zero-nicotine ones that aren’t harmful and aren’t addictive (though may be habit-forming in the same way as snacking or drinking any beverage). Also they’re useful to people trying to quit smoking because even the ones with nicotine are far less harmful than smoking.

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      is it?

      you have to invest quite a bit more than the $6 that a pack of menthol cigarettes is going to cost into a vaporizer setup.

      vaporizers also dont use tobacco, but nicotine, and have varying levels of nicotine - some formulations have no nicotine. there’s also no tar or the 400+ chemicals involved with burning tobacco.

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            Unless you’re going to a reservation any cigarettes you buy are going to be at least $15 a pack. The bigger the city the bigger the price.

            $6 a pack was like 30 years ago

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              It’s probably $6-7 in KY, NC, and SC still. I was in Lexington KY last year this time, and IIRC the packs were around that. I roll with a topomatic so I get pipe tobacco which runs $22 a pound in CA where I live, and was $13 a pound in KY. Just not for Camels, Newports, or Marlboro those are all like $10 in KY

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                Oh NC is like a magical land of good cigarette prices. If you’re a snowbird that doesn’t fly you’re stopping in NC and loading up.

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              1993 I could get a pack of GPCs for $0.99. The name brands were about $2.00 a pack when bought as a carton. I remember watching the prices climb, hearing NYC was like $8.00, and I was like fuuuuuck.

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          Disposable vapes should be illegal for sure. Everywhere. Like it’s not fucking hard to change a coil. It’s not hard to even wrap a coil and change a cotton wick. Disposables are the shittiest laziest things and create insane amounts of waste, like you said.

          Quick edit: make your own juice, wrap your own coils, and vaping is basically free from then on.