Ayanna Pressley actually said...

This is important, because if we are banning flavors we must ban all flavors, which includes mint and menthol.

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.

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

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