Fast-forward to this week, when the Biden Administration announced its desire to ban menthol cigarettes in the United States, with the intention to help significantly reduce youth initiation, increase the chances of smoking cessation among current smokers, and address health disparities experienced by communities of color, low-income populations, and LGBTQ+ individuals, all of whom are far more likely to use these tobacco products. The proposal is not new, and in fact has been kicked around Washington DC for years, provoking much harsh reaction from a wide coterie of groups, including the Council on Racial Equality (CORE), the National Black Chamber of Commerce, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and numerous police organizations all of whom see this move as potentially creating more harm than good within African-American communities
Preventive Services Task Force currently considers the evidence insufficient to make a formal recommendation for e-cigarettes as a cessation tool
Thanks to a combination of media misinformation and the FDAs failure to provide the public with accurate information, a majority of the public and smokers believe alternatives like e-cigarettes are just as or more dangerous than smoking
During this treatment, a high-concentration bleaching gel is applied to the teeth and activated using a laser or special light, as explained in a guide to laser teeth whitening
Market research reports and observations do, however, provide some insight
