#Politics Listening to a livestream feed from an Alabama radio station. They claim that African-Americans will vote en masse for #Trump in November because "Democrats are about to ban menthol cigarettes."
(Which would be a pretty neat trick with Republicans in the House majority.)
Turns out the truth is that nation's oldest group representing Black physicians just sued the FDA because the agency had *not* banned menthol cigarettes.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/02/health/menthol-tobacco-fda-lawsuit/index.html
@WordsmithFL this is what we get after 40 years of diminishing support for education and critical thinking skills. Organized religion as the unquestioned backbone of communities has also played no small part.