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The AMA Hates Blacks

By Sean Sirrine

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Okay, not really, but they are sure doing a crappy job of protecting African-American smokers from the addictive habit. In fact, you could say that they are doing next to nothing to protect black smokers in order to protect white smokers.

But don't worry, they aren't racist, they just wouldn't have been able to protect the non-menthol users if they had tried to protect 75% of black smokers.

From the Sun-Sentinel:

The country's largest organization of doctors Tuesday refused to challenge a controversial tobacco bill that would ban many flavor additives in cigarettes sold in the United States but exempt menthol flavoring.

. . . . .

Menthol is preferred by more than 75 percent of black smokers, according to government estimates. Fewer than 25 percent of whites smoke it.

. . . . .

The reason is that the menthol exemption helped congressional leaders reach a bipartisan compromise on legislation that would put cigarettes under government regulation.

Full post as published by Objective Justice on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).

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