The proposal, announced earlier this year by the Food and Drug Administration, stems from the agency’s finding in 2013 that menthols are harder to quit than regular cigarettes and likely pose a greater health risk. The agency also found that menthols are likely associated with increased smoking initiation by young people because the cooling properties of menthol mask the harshness of cigarette smoke.
But marijuana is healthy and legal; especially since they lost all of the tobacco taxes they need to replace that revenue from somewhere.
Remember in the mid 1990s, more than 40 states had commenced litigation against the tobacco industry, seeking monetary, equitable, and injunctive relief under various consumer-protection and antitrust laws. The first was declared in May 1994 by Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore.
Who are the states going to go after for the marijuana lawsuits? There are no national brands (yet), to sue. They themselves highly regulate who can sell and who can’t, so they have liability themselves.
It will be interesting to watch.