Re:FDA Moves to Ban All Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars
by LeifCarrotson on Thursday April 29, 2021 @06:06PM
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You do have to be careful with your groupings. I wonder if this isn't a confusion between the number of cigarettes smoked by a particular population and the number of people from each population who smoke, or something like that.
I'm not sure where the number '20 million menthol users' keeps coming from, perhaps somewhere in the data behind [1]? Regardless, [2] and [3] suggest that somewhere around 20% of the African American population smokes tobacco in some form. Among those 20% of black Americans who smoke about 85% use menthols.
I'm not sure where the number '20 million menthol users' keeps coming from, perhaps somewhere in the data behind [1]? Regardless, [2] and [3] suggest that somewhere around 20% of the African American population smokes tobacco in some form. Among those 20% of black Americans who smoke about 85% use menthols.
[1] https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/cbhsq-report...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/disparities/african-americans/in...
[3] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/disparities/african-americans/in...