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The Food and Drug Administration is poised to crack down on tobacco products, starting with a potential ban on menthol cigarettes next week.
The FDA’s policy decision on menthol cigarettes is a
mandatory response to a June 2020 lawsuit brought by the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council, which argued that the FDA has neglected to regulate menthol cigarettes in the same way it does nonflavored cigarettes
since 2009. The public health organization compelled the agency to respond to a citizens’ petition calling for the product’s removal from the market. It remains unclear whether it will result in a total ban on menthol cigarettes.
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Richmond Cuts Stratford Hills Casino Proposal From Running
A rendering of the proposed Bally s casino resort in Richmond s Statford Hills neighborhood. (Courtesy of Bally s Corporation)
An evaluation panel appointed by Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced Wednesday that a proposal for a casino resort in the Stratford Hills neighborhood will not move forward.
The Bally’s Corporation proposed a $650 million casino resort on 61 acres of undeveloped land near Powhite and Chippenham Parkways. The proposal drew demonstrations from neighbors in recent weeks, protesting potential traffic impacts and negative environmental effects. Some also raised concerns about the presence of gravesites for free and formerly enslaved Black people near where the project was planned.
FDA weighs ban on menthol cigarettes, which disproportionately addict - and kill - black Americans
By The Washington Post
Laura Reiley
Theo Wilson avoided smoking most of his adult life. He remembered the smell of menthol from his childhood, the smell of his father s cigarettes, his aunt s and his grandmother s. The minty smell of the cigarettes whose secondhand smoke gave him childhood asthma, the smell of the cigarettes that cut his grandmother s life short.
But in 2018, when he portrayed an Iraq War veteran in a play in Denver, his character was expected to smoke a marijuana cigarette onstage. The prop master got him an e-cigarette with a blinking blue light at the end, wrapping it in rolling paper to look convincing. After everything he knew, after railing against smoking, he got hooked. Over-the-counter minty e-cigarettes became fat vape pens, vaping turned into menthol and clove tobacco cigarettes. He bummed Kools and Newports - two of the most popular menthol brands - off