{"id":1983484,"date":"2023-07-26T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sinema-hits-biden-administration-over-planned-menthol-ban\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T18:01:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T22:01:42","slug":"sinema-hits-biden-administration-over-planned-menthol-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sinema-hits-biden-administration-over-planned-menthol-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinema criticizes Biden administration&#8217;s menthol ban."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsinema-hits-biden-administration-over-planned-menthol-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1983484&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Opposes Biden Administration&#8217;s Proposed Ban on Menthol Cigarettes<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) has taken a stand against the Biden administration&#8217;s plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-expected-to-propose-ban-on-menthol-cigarettes-aclu-says-it-will-disproportionately-affect-communities-of-color\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Expected To Propose Ban On Menthol Cigarettes, ACLU Says It Will Disproportionately Affect Communities Of Color\">ban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nanny-biden-comes-for-menthols\/\" title=\"Nanny Biden Comes for Menthols\">menthol cigarettes<\/a><\/a>, arguing that such decisions should be left to individual states rather than the federal government. Speaking at \u2063a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tv-network-ratings-drop-during-bidens-first-full-week-in-office\/\" title=\"TV Network Ratings Drop During Biden\u2019s First Full Week in Office\">town hall event<\/a> with the U.S. Hispanic Business Council, Sinema emphasized the importance\u2062 of state \u2063autonomy in regulating their own laws. This makes Sinema \u200bone of the first Democratic-aligned senators to voice opposition to the proposal,\u200d which was\u200c announced a year ago. \u200d(Sinema is an independent\u2063 but caucuses with Democrats.)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;My general perspective would\u2063 be that as adults, people can make their\u200d own choices,\u2062 and \u2064what the government&#8217;s job to do\u200c is to \u200bensure that we have a market that is open and that products \u200care available that are \u200bregulated to make sure that everyone \u2063is safe,&#8221; Sinema \u2062stated.\u200c &#8220;At the federal level, I believe that it&#8217;s\u2062 our job to kind of stay out of that and let states take\u200b their own action and manage their own choices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is currently working on finalizing a proposal to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, which make up\u200c over one-third of\u2063 the cigarette market in the United States, according to the Kaiser Health Foundation. Advocates argue that such\u2063 a ban is crucial in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sinema-hits-biden-administration-over-planned-menthol-ban\/\" title=\"Sinema criticizes Biden administration's menthol ban.\">reducing smoking \u200crates<\/a> and related deaths nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>However, the proposed ban has raised concerns from \u2064various groups, including the National Association of Police Organizations, which believes that resources would be better utilized in combating violent\u200b crimes rather than overseeing menthol \u200ddistribution. They argue\u2064 that these matters should be addressed within a regulated system.<\/p>\n<p>Criminal justice reform groups have also expressed opposition, claiming that the ban would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-devastating-consequences-of-the-democrat-for-the-people-act\/\" title=\"4 Devastating Consequences Of The Democrat \u2018For The People Act\u2019\">disproportionately impact communities<\/a> of color and lead to increased incarceration rates.<\/p>\n<p>At least 21 Senate Democrats\u200c have expressed support\u2064 for the ban, urging the FDA to \u200dprovide updates on the measure in a\u2063 letter sent in May. The release date for the proposed rule is still uncertain, but it is expected to\u2064 be announced later this \u200cyear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Make your own decisions about your life, take responsibility, be accountable for\u2063 yourself, and as long as you&#8217;re not hurting someone else,\u2064 you can make the decisions you\u200d want to make in your own life,&#8221; Sinema concluded.<\/p>\n<h3>Click\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) opposes the federal ban on menthol cigarettes, stating that states should decide. She emphasized this viewpoint during a town hall event with the U.S. Hispanic Business Council, highlighting the significance of state autonomy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1983485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}