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Originally Posted by maggot
It has nothing to do with banning cloves. This isn't gothsploitation or anything.
From what I've gathered, this is mainly to get rid of bidi cigarettes, as smoking one bidi is the equivalent of smoking a full pack of normal cigarettes, and they're 2 bucks a pack (USD).
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That was just retarded. Bidi's are nothing like smoking a whole pack of cigarettes. The few articles I've been able to pull up say they have a little higher nic in em and higher tar, then again, they also say that they're all the rage which is total BS. I've met 20X more people that smoke cloves to bidis. The only thing this bill is about is making Congress look like their being tough on cigarette manufacturers while doing jack shit except piss off a small minority of an already despised minority while locking in Phillip Morris's market share.
If congress wanted to do something they would have included menthol in the ban and, at the least, thousands of black teenagers, with at least a few hundred white, would have instantly stopped smoking when Kools and Newports went off the market. Instead they exempt the one flavour that these teenagers will turn down a cigarette if it is not available. But not, doing something would piss a lot of people off. So instead, they do something that accomplishes nothing but take away something that a small number of people enjoy.