The Fall Of Menthol
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 30 April 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The pandemic continues to spiral out of control in India, with the country recently topping 200,000 deaths by the official count. The initial flights carrying relief from the U.S. landed yesterday. Vaccine manufacturing supplies from the U.S. will soon follow.
The Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday that it’s creating standards over the next year to ban menthol in cigarettes and all flavoring in cigars. Flavored tobacco offerings are heavily marketed to Black people, and as a result, 85 percent of all menthol cigarette smokers are Black.
And in headlines: five Lady Gaga dog robbers are arrested, Colorado state legislature okays human composting, and Disaster Girl sells her own meme as an NFT for $500,000.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, April 30th. I'm Achille Hughes. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Gideon Resick and this is what a day where we are mentally preparing ourselves |
| 0:12.4 | to take the masks off of our microphones. |
| 0:14.6 | Yeah, we've been covering them up with a 95s for the past year based on some very questionable |
| 0:19.2 | advice. |
| 0:20.2 | When I take this off, you're going to hear that I'm actually shouting all the time. |
| 0:32.1 | On today's show, the government vows to snuff out menthol and other flavorings in tobacco |
| 0:36.1 | products, plus we'll have some headlines. |
| 0:38.1 | But first the latest. |
| 0:39.1 | They have burned over 800 bodies here in the last three weeks in what used to be a car park. |
| 0:46.4 | This in Delhi, a city of 20 million people, where the official death toll is one dead from |
| 0:52.7 | COVID every four minutes. |
| 0:55.2 | Wow. |
| 0:57.0 | That's a news report on the dire situation in India where the pandemic continues to spiral |
| 1:00.8 | out of control. |
| 1:02.1 | The country recently topped 200,000 deaths, but that's the official count. |
| 1:06.0 | Many believe that to be a significant undercount. |
| 1:08.2 | Yeah, the scale of the crisis there is really, really hard to imagine and has quickly become |
| 1:13.8 | the worst the world has seen. |
| 1:15.5 | Yesterday alone, there were more than 375,000 new cases in the country in just a single day, |
| 1:21.2 | yet another record, and more than 3,600 deaths. |
| 1:24.6 | Overall the total number of confirmed cases, which again, people think is an undercount, |
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