Three Democrat Members of Congress from Illinois (Bobby Rush, Raja Krishnamoorthi, and Dick Durbin) sent the FDA a strongly worded letter asking to have menthol cigarettes banned for “public health and racial equity”. Our American Mamas, Denise Arthur and Teri Netterville, cannot understand why these Democrats had to bring race into the discussion at all. Cigarettes are harmful to all races, so using the black race as “justification” to ban menthol cigarettes makes no rational nor medical sense.