Any consideration of menthol prohibition should be made in the context of extremely low youth use of the product, the lack of association between menthol use rates in states and youth smoking, the costs of enforcing prohibition, especially for minority communities, and other less costly ways of reducing smoking, such as increasing the availability of safer nicotine alternatives like e-cigarettes and traditional smoking cessation services, wrote Reason Foundation policy experts Guy Bentley and Jacob James Rich in an analysis
While no food can magically eliminate nicotine, certain foods can help the body detoxify more effectively: Leafy Greens: Spinach, kale, and arugula are loaded with chlorophyll, which supports liver detoxification
Nevertheless, minimal researches have been conducted into the health consequences of smoking electronic cigarettes and those that have been documented have arrived at discordant conclusions
Associated Press contributed to this report.
