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Hundreds of markets to become inconvenience stores in protest over possible ban on menthol cigarettes
By adamg on Mon, 11/04/2019 - 12:47pm
The State House News Service reports hundreds of Boston-area convenience stores will shut at noon on Wednesday - as owners rally at the State House - to protest the ban and "demonstrate the critical role they play providing vital resources to communities."
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outside of cigs and lottery
outside of cigs and lottery, do convenience stores sell anything that you can't already buy at CVS or Walgreens?
Slurpees
Slurpees
The really good Ritchie's
The really good Ritchie's Italian ices, scooped from a tub rather than frozen hard in the supermarket freezer case. But however convenient it is to be able to get watermelon ices two blocks from my house, I realize it's not a necessity of life.
Flint
for Zippo lighters. Let’s see you get that at CVS or Walgreens.
OMG!
Good luck with that Marty.
It's not just Brown people.
wont stand a chance
Won't hold water.
Look, smoking is bad for our health. This has been known as early as the 1960s.
If smoking is so bad for us, why pick at it, Just rip the bandage off and ban smokes all together.
Oh right.. big tobacco says no. Which is why this ban won't hold water.
-- A 20 year former smoker.
Ban smoking? LOLOLOL. Not
Ban smoking? LOLOLOL. Not with the money the state makes off the taxes.
Money first!
Next you'll suggest the state stops pushing gambling at every corner store. Don't you know all that money goes to schools? What about the children? They promised!
When money is involved, to hell with morals.
New drug war?
Yes, let's start a new drug war.
With marijuana being legalized everywhere, law enforcement does need a justification to keep all that fancy military equipment in their hands and all those Constitution-gutting laws on the books. Banning tobacco and dealing with the inevitable black market will make a fine rationale.
If only they'd close to
If only they'd close to protest the constant littering and environmental damage cigarette butts cause. Must be those damn dogs.
Racial inequality?
I'd love to know how a ban on menthol cigarettes ends up being equated with racial inequality.
https://www.theroot.com/black
https://www.theroot.com/black-health-advocates-want-us-government-to-tak...
OK...
So it's racist to not ban menthols because black folks smoke them.
But it's also racist to ban menthols because black folks smoke them.
These folks would be very comfy in Salem circa 1693.
I thought there was a lawsuit where a Black
Family in Roxbury had their mother die at a young age due to the
tobacco Industry targeting young black children with free samples.
So she started smoking at 11 years old.
Now their saying it is racist to ban Menthol Cigarettes??? Can't have it both ways
marie evans of orchard park
https://www.publichealthlawcenter.org/sites/default/files/resources/tclc...
oil can boyd
smoked salems. fact.
providing vital resources
In what universe are menthol cigarettes considered vital resources?
If cigarettes and lottery tickets are considered
to be vital resources, something is clearly wrong with society.
You just know...
.... that Big Tobacco’s pr is behind this protest and those convenience store owners are just naive pawns who are not going gain anything by this protest. But are going to lose sales during the time they close up.
The tobacco industry marketed
The tobacco industry marketed menthol cigarettes heavily with the African-American community, tailoring their ads to highlight role models smoking menthols. There is a large disparity in the proportion of African-Americans smoking menthols compared to whites.
https://tobaccofreeflorida.com/menthol/
Are we trying Prohibition again?
That trick never works.
It's a legal product
The tiny number of people who got sick were using thc juice they got off the street. Hair trigger politically motivated response.
Big tobacco is $ behind the anti-vape uproar. Same as illegal drug traffickers and big pharmaceuticals love our war on drugs.
Big tobacco IS IN ON vaping.
Big tobacco IS IN ON vaping. Do your research before you trash your lungs. Save your money and get an education instead.
My stores never opened today
Mama's Market on the corner of Blue Hill Avenue and Morton Street is closed and a little farther down Morton Street Morton Market have signs about the protest on their shuttered doors. All I wanted was some other than Wonder Bread and a package of Beef Hot Links.