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High Risk Alternative Tobacco Products Disproportionately Sold In Low-Income Communities

John C

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Same old truth.org "truther" BS. "There's more of (insert item here) sold in minority neighborhoods! Obviously the manufacturer of that item is racissss!!!112233"

Guess what, tulips: people sell things where they are purchased more often. It isn't a devious, racist plan. It's the free market.
 

Rossum

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Reading between the lines, it seems this article is complaining about cigarillos and little cigars. It's no surprise that these are popular in poor neighborhood of NYC due to the outrageously high cigarette taxes and mandatory minimum pricing of $13 per pack there. If a smoker only has $10 in his pocket, he cannot buy cigarettes, but he probably can buy a cigar.
 

VaporCat

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The authors didn't consider the products have alternative uses... ****** are quite common around those areas. Vendors are simply responding to an existing demand.
 
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VapinVegas01

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The authors didn't consider the products have alternative uses... ****** are quite common around those areas. Vendors are simply responding to an existing demand.

^^This. I’m also wondering if these will be affected by the new flavors ban. The convenience stores here have more flavors of the cigarillos than they do of any other tobacco or vape product. Seeing as I am in a legal state, it’s not surprising, but they are still being marketed for legal smokers and not the other stuff.
 

VaporCat

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At least a few people I know wouldn't be too thrilled about not being able to pop in to the corner store to get their cherry-flavored cigar wrappers, and tobacco shops are a rip. Seems a nanny in one form or another is sure to turn up just about anywhere these days.
 

John C

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more "hate Whitey " tripe from the globalist propoganda outlets...
Don't even get me started...the interviewer went to a college campus, too. The #1 place to finish the complete and utter indoctrination of children. Starts earlier, but it's full on 100% unabashed indoctrination there. When one side has 95% of the "journalists"/media plus academia, it's a bad, bad situation. College is supposed to be a place of open dialogue and questioning the status quo, but it is now mostly a useless brainwashing farm where anything that challenges that new status quo is silenced immediately. Everything but the STEM subjects are useless in the real world and are rife with marxist/leftist robots who range from well-meaning idiots on one end to violent thugs on the other. When the media and college administrations don't point them out and shame them (which is usually the case), they become bolder.
 

John C

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Reading between the lines, it seems this article is complaining about cigarillos and little cigars. It's no surprise that these are popular in poor neighborhood of NYC due to the outrageously high cigarette taxes and mandatory minimum pricing of $13 per pack there. If a smoker only has $10 in his pocket, he cannot buy cigarettes, but he probably can buy a cigar.
I see your point here, but I think we all know the real use of gas station cigars and cigar wrappers. One time I bought a cigar from a gas station and some people with me were shocked that I was going to simply smoke the cigar. lol
 

Rossum

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I see your point here, but I think we all know the real use of gas station cigars and cigar wrappers. One time I bought a cigar from a gas station and some people with me were shocked that I was going to simply smoke the cigar. lol
Well, no, not all of us.

And lest you think I'm some kind of prude, during my college years in the late 1970s I think I tried every just about every mind altering substance known at the time. The only place I drew a line was at the use of hypodermic needles; that was an absolute no-go.

Perhaps I was doing something wrong, 'cause I never once needed, wanted, or had a use for a cigar or a cigar wrapper, so I honestly have no clue what illicit purpose they might be used for. :oops:
 

VapinVegas01

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Well, no, not all of us.

And lest you think I'm some kind of prude, during my college years in the late 1970s I think I tried every just about every mind altering substance known at the time. The only place I drew a line was at the use of hypodermic needles; that was an absolute no-go.

Perhaps I was doing something wrong, 'cause I never once needed, wanted, or had a use for a cigar or a cigar wrapper, so I honestly have no clue what illicit purpose they might be used for. :oops:

To be BLUNT, we can’t really talk about it here.
 

John C

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OK, Wikipedia even has an article on it. I'm not sure I understand the appeal. That seems like an inefficient method of consuming an expensive substance. Back in the day, I used something that rhymes with GONG. :D
Honestly I do not understand it either. I guess with the flavored cigars and wrappers there is a flavor component people like. Good question, not sure.
 

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