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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

Should the U.S. ban menthol cigarettes?

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, News, On Point, Daily, Npr

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

More than 80% of Black smokers smoke menthol cigarettes. The FDA is now pushing to ban the products, saying it will prevent death and disease.

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On Point is WBUR’s award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world.

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A conversation with Dean Susan Fournier, where she

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answers the question at the heart of the show.

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For decades, menthol cigarettes were widely promoted.

0:37.0

He knows it. She knows it.

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How about you?

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Still messing with hot-tasting cigarettes. Come on, you know what you do by that.

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Come on up to cool. Coals and only cools. We'll come on with the taste of extra coolness.

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Come up to the cool.

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Come up to the cool.

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Come up to the baby.

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This is a 1969 radio ad for the menthol cigarette brand Cool.

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Before these ads were banned, going back to the 1950s,

1:09.0

the American tobacco industry aggressively marketed menthol cigarettes to African Americans.

1:14.4

More than 80% of black smokers smoke them according to the US Centers for Disease Control

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