Bomb-Sniffing Elephants?... | 12/14/22
Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher
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4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We have talked about California and Massachusetts banning menthol cigarettes. |
| 0:12.0 | I would say that that's just an attack on minorities and women. |
| 0:16.9 | I mean, we know that approximately 48% of Hispanic adults who smoke use menthol cigarettes |
| 0:24.3 | as compared to 30% of non-Hispanic white adults. |
| 0:30.1 | Who smoke are more likely to use menthol cigarettes, 44% than men who smoke, which is only 35%. |
| 0:39.1 | Hispanic adults, you know, by race, non-Hispanic white adults, 13.3%, non-Hispanic black adults, |
| 0:48.8 | 14.4%, Hispanic adults, 8% and non-Hispanic Asian adults. |
| 0:54.7 | So weird how they break everything down, 8%. |
| 0:58.3 | Now, an overwhelming percentage of African-American black people smoke menthol cigarettes |
| 1:08.1 | compared with 30% of white smokers. |
| 1:12.4 | So when you start banning menthol cigarettes, you're attacking minorities. |
| 1:19.2 | And that, to me, is a problem. |
| 1:21.2 | I don't think it's a problem for anyone else apparently, but it's just another way that we want |
| 1:26.2 | to divide the country even more. |
| 1:29.1 | I know that New Zealand just passed a law that states that if you were born on or after January |
| 1:38.7 | 1st, 2009, you can no longer buy cigarettes in New Zealand. |
| 1:46.0 | Wait, what? |
| 1:47.2 | Yes, it isn't just a lifetime ban on youth smoking. |
| 1:51.6 | It's intended to eventually wipe out tobacco smoking in New Zealand altogether. |
| 1:58.0 | And I guess smoking is not so popular in New Zealand anyway. |
| 2:04.5 | More adults vape than smoke cigarettes as of last month, according to the government. |
| 2:11.2 | So they'll be coming for your vape pens very, very soon. |
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