L.A. will ban many businesses from selling tobacco products that come in sweet, spicy and minty flavors under restrictions backed by the City Council.
into menthol lobbying efforts found that L.A. protesters were paid to attend that rally, which was organized by a group with close ties to Reynolds American, the biggest manufacturer of menthols in the United States.
Council members ultimately resisted calls to exempt menthols, citing their harmful effect on the health of Black communities. Menthol, a minty compound that masks the harshness of tobacco, has been found to be harder to quit than conventional cigarettes. “It would have been extremely disappointing if we had said, ‘We’re going to protect people and children from uptake of tobacco — except for the flavor that we know Black people first, and Latinos second, use the most,’” said Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson, calling the Wednesday vote “a victory for racial justice.”
Tobacco companies had lobbied the city against broadly banning flavored products, arguing that doing so would have unintended consequences such asAlthough “these bans are primarily driven by parental concerns over one particular product, the bans themselves cover a much broader range of products, including some that involve neither vape nor tobacco, such as those that use pharmaceutical grade nicotine,” Sandy Fowler-Jones, a spokesperson for the tobacco company Swedish Match, said in an...
If such health implications are not considered, “the ban may inadvertently do more harm than good,” Fowler-Jones said.
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