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A comment on FDA Moves to Ban All Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars. Parent comment

Re:FDA Moves to Ban All Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars by jolux on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:21PM (#26986901)
Nicotine is potentially harmful in a few ways but mostly it's the constituents of tobacco smoke, particularly nitrosamines: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20121116-can-we-ever-have....
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Re:FDA Moves to Ban All Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars by nicoburns on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:25PM (#26986967)
> Nicotine is potentially harmful in a few ways

Not least of which is it's incredibly addictive. Meaning that tobacco smokers often smoke a lot.

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Re:FDA Moves to Ban All Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars by jolux on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:31PM (#26987057)
True, but of itself that's not necessarily a health problem. I was talking about the limited evidence that it can harden your arterial walls and such.
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