"To effectively ban menthol cigarettes, the FDA will have to ban tobacco entirely, something it has admitted is not in its power to do. Or it would have to destroy the environments in which mint grows naturally throughout the world and ban all possible chemical substitutes and their constituent parts. This is why liberty lovers always warn about the 'slippery slope' of regulatory authoritarianism. Effectively banning just one simple thing usually requires widespread repression." ~ Robert E. Wright