Lindsey Stroud is director of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s Consumer Center.
Opinion
Menthol ban would harm North Carolina consumers and taxpayers
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is in the final stages of advancing a proposed rule that would ban the sale of menthol cigarettes. Such a draconian prohibitionist policy is not necessary, because smoking rates are among their lowest levels ever recorded in the Tar Heel State. More problematic is that the FDA is...