Comments on: National Black Chamber Opposes New FDA Tobacco Regulations http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/national-black-chamber-opposes-new-fda-tobacco-regulations Engaging the culture by challenging the status quo Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:30:01 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mr. J http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/national-black-chamber-opposes-new-fda-tobacco-regulations/comment-page-1#comment-3935 Mr. J Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:23:01 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2007/03/08/national-black-chamber-opposes-new-fda-tobacco-regulations/#comment-3935 Commenter "S. Cain" holds no understanding of tobacco use and does not understand the impact cigarette sales have for black-owned businesses like mine. Cigarettes are a commodity and already it is getting harder for people to buy them due to unfair taxation rates (aka using smokers to fund other things). So, I'm sorry but if my customers want them then it's my right to sell them. Commenter “S. Cain” holds no understanding of tobacco use and does not understand the impact cigarette sales have for black-owned businesses like mine. Cigarettes are a commodity and already it is getting harder for people to buy them due to unfair taxation rates (aka using smokers to fund other things). So, I’m sorry but if my customers want them then it’s my right to sell them.

]]> By: S. Cain http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/national-black-chamber-opposes-new-fda-tobacco-regulations/comment-page-1#comment-3934 S. Cain Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:53:33 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2007/03/08/national-black-chamber-opposes-new-fda-tobacco-regulations/#comment-3934 Well...I don't know if I can sympathize too strong with those in the tobacco industry...As long as those leaves are given to companies that adulterate the product, I show no remorse. Menthol is a poison. Why Blacks are marketed and given the experimental product in a higher ratio than others and blacks tolerate it...jeeze. Tobacco isn't an intelligent product to consume as long as it in the form of nicotine delivery devices aka cigarettes. And then there's the history aspect of it: You know, picking it for the British Empire, then for the American colonists, then for the renegade Confederacy, then for Jim Crow... Black folk can do better than Big (Ole) Tobacco. No ifs, ands or butts. Well…I don’t know if I can sympathize too strong with those in the tobacco industry…As long as those leaves are given to companies that adulterate the product, I show no remorse. Menthol is a poison. Why Blacks are marketed and given the experimental product in a higher ratio than others and blacks tolerate it…jeeze. Tobacco isn’t an intelligent product to consume as long as it in the form of nicotine delivery devices aka cigarettes.

And then there’s the history aspect of it:

You know, picking it for the British Empire, then for the American colonists, then for the renegade Confederacy, then for Jim Crow…

Black folk can do better than Big (Ole) Tobacco. No ifs, ands or butts.

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