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Smoking is the leading cause of avoidable deaths in the United States, by theCenters for Disaster Control and Prevention, representing more than 480,000 deaths per year, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from exposure to second-hand smoke. In other words, about one of five deaths are linked to the bad habit and 1,300 diets per day. Thursday, the American food and drug administration has significantly reduced the diseases and death of combustion tobacco products, stating that they advance two types of popular smokers. Read on to find out what they are-And to ensure your health and health of others, do not miss theseWithout signs that you may have had Covid and unknown.

FDA wants to prohibit nicotine products flavored with menthol

InA declaration,The FDA has announced that they "issue product standards proposed over the next yearSwitching menthol as a flavor of cigarettes and prohibit all characteristic flavors (including menthol) in cigars; The authority to adopt product standards is one of the most powerful tobacco regulatory tools, the Tobacco Regulatory Congress has given the Agency, "they declared." This decision is based on a clear science and evidence establishing the addictiveness and prejudice to these products and relies on significant and previous actions that prohibits other flavored cigarettes in 2009. "

"Prohibition of Menthol - The last eligible flavor - in cigarettes and prohibit all flavors in cigars will help save lives, particularly among those affected disproportionately by these fatal products. With these actions, the FDA will contribute to reduce Considerably the initiation of young people, increase the chances of smoking. Cessation in current smokers and deals with the health disparities experienced by color communities, low-income populations and LGBTQ + people, which are much more likely to use These tobacco products, "said the FDA Commissioner, Janet Woodcock, MD in the Declaration." Together, these actions represent powerful and science-based approaches that will have an extraordinary impact on public health. Armed with solid evidence. scientists, and with total support of the administration, we believe that these actions will lead us on a trajectory at the end of the tobacco . illness and death in the United States "

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Menthol is a proven motivating factor in smoking people

There is scientific evidence that Menthol is a factor of motivation in people who are breaking, especially among the youngest, because it masks the flavor and hardness of tobacco. It can also make products more addictive and more difficult to stop smoking. Ato studyEven found that the prohibition of mint flavored cigarettes could result in a cessation of 923,000 smokers, including 230,000 African-Americans, during the first 13 to 17 months following the prohibition. An alternativeto studyAdds that this could assimilate to save 633,000 lives - including 237,000 African Americans.

According to the CDC, more than a third of all cigarettes sold in the United States in 2018 have been flavored with menthol. And to protect your health, do not miss theseSigns you get one of the "most deadly" cancers.