The Biden administration said Friday it would again delay a decision on a regulation aiming to ban menthol-flavored cigarettes, citing the “historic attention” and “immense amount of feedback” on the controversial proposal by the Food and Drug Administration.
“This rule has garnered historic attention and the public comment period has yielded an immense amount of feedback, including from various elements of the civil rights and criminal justice movement,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement.
Great, in a country where smoking rates have steadily declined across all major demographic groups since the 70’s, this is the kind of legislation we are worrying about.
Forget about actually pressing issues like the crushing student debt and college costs, general consumer debt, soaring medical costs, soaring housing costs, homelessness in major cities, the genocide in Palestine, the growing environmental crisis, the erosion of civil liberties and labor rights… But we gotta talk about banning Menthol cigarettes…
You know they can work on more than one thing at once, right? And the administration has more control over some things than others.
Can they though? Hows this congresses track record on passing bills in a timely manner?
Congress is actually the perfect example. Most of the time spent on a bill is just waiting. If they didn’t work on multiple bills at the same time, it would be even slower.
We should pass whatever good regulation we can. This is good regulation
Sounds good to me, gancho.