Post by Dan on Feb 11, 2015 15:10:54 GMT
Lets get the facts on the table, I smoke menthol cigarettes and I think they are great. I smoked corks for some time until I realised I didnt really like the smell, and they left my tiny flat feeling stuffy. So I switched to menthols. Now the flat is manageable, and a small air conditioner filters away enough so most of my friends have not stopped complaining. I like the taste and the smell and the look of white filter menthols, and I'm not about to quit.
Yet the powers that be have already signed away the rights to produce flavoured cigs in the name of 'health', and to stop kids from starting. I personally think the 'health' aspect is overblown (menthols seem to clear out my lungs better than regular cigs), and there is no evidence to suggest mint/menthol is harmful in any way. Secondly of course, kids will smoke, no matter what flavour or what price, and around my home town, they start pretty early, so I dont think 'menthol' has much to do with it.
So in the end, we must smoke and enjoy menthols while we can, be while the powers say so. It means I must buy strong breath mints if I want to enjoy the menthol taste in years to come. The white filters of the UK will migrate to ultra mild varieties like in the USA, so the all-whites will never die.
Seems a waste, but enjoy them while we can.
Yet the powers that be have already signed away the rights to produce flavoured cigs in the name of 'health', and to stop kids from starting. I personally think the 'health' aspect is overblown (menthols seem to clear out my lungs better than regular cigs), and there is no evidence to suggest mint/menthol is harmful in any way. Secondly of course, kids will smoke, no matter what flavour or what price, and around my home town, they start pretty early, so I dont think 'menthol' has much to do with it.
So in the end, we must smoke and enjoy menthols while we can, be while the powers say so. It means I must buy strong breath mints if I want to enjoy the menthol taste in years to come. The white filters of the UK will migrate to ultra mild varieties like in the USA, so the all-whites will never die.
Seems a waste, but enjoy them while we can.
