“There is truth to the fact that lives will be saved because of the number of African Americans who smoke menthol cigarettes, but that doesn’t address the black market it creates for menthol cigarettes, which brings police into the situation and is what happened in the Eric Garner case,” added John Warren, the publisher of The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint. “People don’t need to be killed by police because of cigarettes. It’s not worth it.”

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