Mmmmm-mmmm minty!
Menthol cigarettes are disproportionately harmful to black smokers, apparently, which is why the Biden administration aims to ban them. Opponents of the ban, which include rabble-rouser Al Sharpton, claim that banning a product that is most popular among African Americans is discriminatory.
So, one side wants to ban menthol cigarettes because they discriminate against blacks, while the other side opposes the ban because it discriminates against blacks. At least that's clear.
What's unclear, to me anyway, is why minty cigarettes should be more harmful to black people, and what level of scientific data supports this assertion. Perhaps it's just that blacks prefer them, and smoke them disproportionately more, compared to other ethnic groups.
And perhaps it's at this point that someone should point out that smoking is harmful to health. Period. The addition or absence of flavouring doesn't make a cancer stick less of a cancer stick. It just makes a cancer stick more or less palatable and likely to be smoked. Jus' sayin'.