President Biden is under increasing pressure by top Democrats to ban flavoured tobacco as his proposal is hanging in limbo due to the threat of alienating black voters ahead of the 2024 election, reports Daily Mail.

In December, the Biden administration backed away from a nationwide ban on menthol cigarettes due to political pressure and warnings the move could anger black voters who have been drifting away from the president in polling.
The regulation is now expected to be finalized in March – pushed back from the original January date.
However, according to more than 20 Democratic-led states, including California, the health benefits outweigh the political risks Biden faces on the campaign trail.
California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta led a 21-state letter to the White House stating that the time to act is ‘now’ to “halt the sale of these flavored tobacco products, which will lay the groundwork to reverse decades of disparities in tobacco use and save lives.”
According to the report, a number of recent polls show that President Biden’s proposed ban on menthol cigarettes may have ‘unintended consequences’ for him at the ballot box in 2024.
Earlier in January, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to California’s menthol cigarette ban as a similar Biden-proposed national ban on flavoured tobacco hangs in limbo. The high court declined to hear a case brought by R.J. Reynolds challenging the ban on flavoured cigarettes in the Democratic-ruled state.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the ban into law in 2020 to curb the use of e-cigarettes and flavoured tobacco by teens and younger Americans. California is the second state after Massachusetts to implement such a ban.