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These substances are precursors of nitrosamines, which can only be converted into the carcinogenic nitrosamines by chemical reaction with nitrite after they have passed from the product into the saliva or gastric juice of humans

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"Additionally, the proposed rules represent an important step to advance health equity by significantly reducing tobacco-related health disparities." The FDA notes "particularly high rates of use by youth, young adults, and African American and other racial and ethnic groups." The federal government is implicitly denying the moral agency of black people, suggesting that they, like adolescents, are helpless to resist the allure of "predatory marketing" or the appeal of menthol's minty coolness

According to Influence Explorer, a website that compiles campaign finance data, Altria spent at least $32 million in 2012 to defeat Proposition 29, which would have added a $1 tax to cigarette packs in California