Ayanna Pressley actually said...

47,000 black people die every year from smoking-related illness, making this the largest cause of preventable death among black Americans.

To not do so would be discriminatory, since menthol, in particular, has imposed a unique and deadly burden on the black community.

We must clamp down on the production of menthol products and not the individual possession of it, because there are real intergenerational, ...

Our work to end the smoking epidemic is not just simply a matter of public health. This is, and always has been, an issue of racial justice.