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ASH HITS MISREPRESENTATIONS: HELP BAN LETHAL "RACIST" LOOPHOLE FROM FDA CIGARETTE REGULATION BILL 

Below is a letter ASH has just written to a leading proponent of the FDA bill concerning two misrepresentations about the lethal racist menthol loophole:

We write to most respectfully correct what appear to be misrepresentations concerning the decision to exempt menthol (and not clove, peppermint, etc.) from additives which would be prohibited in cigarettes under the bill providing for FDA regulation of cigarettes [HR 1108]; a bill which therefore appears at the very least to raise racist implications.

It appears that some have been arguing that menthol - and menthol alone, of all other additives - was chosen to be exempted only because it was the single additive which had already been used in cigarettes, unlike other possibilities such as clove, peppermint, etc. But this is false!

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