{"id":461006,"date":"2021-04-28T18:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T22:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=461006"},"modified":"2021-04-28T18:20:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T22:20:21","slug":"nanny-biden-comes-for-menthols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nanny-biden-comes-for-menthols\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanny Biden Comes for Menthols"},"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\">10<\/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%2Fnanny-biden-comes-for-menthols%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=461006&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3975.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Inspired by Kamala Harris\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/kamala-harris-pot-cop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crusade<\/a> against pot-smoking White House staffers, the Biden administration now seems determined to stop the rest of the country from having fun.<\/p>\n<p>The administration is expected to announce this week a proposed ban on menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2021\/04\/28\/ban-on-menthol-cigarettes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the <em>Washington Post<\/em>. Supporters claim the ban will help curb youth tobacco use and boost public health.<\/p>\n<p>As is often the case, the lofty rhetoric obscures a more dangerous encroachment of government on individual freedom. Plus, it\u2019s racist, at least based on the standard of &#8220;equity&#8221; embraced by this administration.<\/p>\n<p>Poor diet and inactivity kill upwards of 600,000 people each year, nearly a third more than smoking, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Only 30 percent of those smokers smoke menthols. Why not ban fast-food restaurants and mandate 10,000 steps for every American if we accept the government\u2019s right to force Americans to live healthy lives.<\/p>\n<p>This White House has made clear through executive orders and presidential rhetoric that equity trumps equality, and presumably they take issue with facially neutral policies that have a disparate impact on minority groups. In fact, the <em>Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2021\/04\/28\/ban-on-menthol-cigarettes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writes<\/a>, the menthol ban is intended to reduce racial disparities in the health care system.<\/p>\n<p>Pick your poison. African Americans are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tobacco\/basic_information\/tobacco_industry\/menthol-cigarettes\/index.html#:~:text=Young%20people%20and%20African%20Americans,menthol%20cigarettes%20than%20other%20groups.&#038;text=More%20than%20half%20(54%25),who%20smoke%20use%20menthol%20cigarettes.&#038;text=That%20percentage%20is%20higher%20than,older%20who%20smoke%20menthol%20cigarettes.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more likely<\/a> to smoke menthol cigarettes than any other group, which also means they will be disproportionately impacted by the forthcoming ban.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing less American than bureaucrats telling adults how to consume legal substances. Perhaps President Biden can learn from his former boss, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/barack-obama-smokes-cigs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">known<\/a> cigarette-lover Barack Obama, and let smokers light up in peace\u2014even the black ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Kamala Harris\u2019s crusade against pot-smoking White House staffers, the Biden administration now seems determined to stop the rest of the country from having fun. The administration is expected &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276953,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3975.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Nanny Biden Comes for Menthols","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3975.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Nanny Biden Comes for Menthols","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461006","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=461006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}