Archived from the original on September 15, 2014
"Additionally, the proposed rules represent an important step to advance health equity by significantly reducing tobacco-related health disparities." The FDA notes "particularly high rates of use by youth, young adults, and African American and other racial and ethnic groups." The federal government is implicitly denying the moral agency of black people, suggesting that they, like adolescents, are helpless to resist the allure of "predatory marketing" or the appeal of menthol's minty coolness
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Yun JE, Kimm H, Choi YJ, et al
According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a product can contain as little as 50% synthetic nicotine and still be labeled as synthetic. Manufacturers say the tobacco-derived nicotine used in their products is purified or synthetic, but purifying nicotine derived from tobacco enough to reach medicinal levels is expensive