What's The illusion & for Whom is it set for ? 

As we all can notice even youngsters under age of 15 starts smoking but is this all addiction their fault?

No, there are many reasons out of which we are here to break  about the Menthol illusion :

Many of the tobacco companies have been successfully managed to carry forward their market by the uses of different illusions apart from tobacco itself.

They use the Additives (more than 600 in different products & yet none of them mentioned on the packing) from cigarettes to every other one. Menthol is one of them & best of them(for tobacco companies, not for us) as :

<I> When Menthol cigarette (unmentioned cigarettes may also contain menthol) is inhaled ---

Menthol reduces airway pain, irritations in the chest from cigarette smoke &  suppresses  coughing by soothing and cooling effect  ((Masking all the early warning symptoms of tobacco use but not curing))>>>>

But at the same time, it gives smokers, ‘‘the illusion of breathing more easily’’ so they start taking deep breaths of cigarettes into their lungs resulting into more and more easy consumption of cigarettes. So, ultimately companies have made their product easy to take resulting more profit & now smoker’s addiction is  turned into  super addiction & suffers  grave danger than before. 

<II> The “mint, the taste and the odor” of Menthol in the cigarettes & the “new technologies” are increasing the popularity against non-smokers includes ---

 “Embedding menthol/other flavor filled Capsules in cigarettes filters” allowing the customer to adjust taste individually as well as introduction of e-cigarettes >>>>

(a)‘‘Masks’’ all the  Early Warnings of tobacco as well as, 

(b) ‘‘Successfully Attracts’’ the “Youngsters  & kids”  towards the more smoking as in the young age they always look for something new & joyous activities to perform :  unknowingly becoming the victims of this “Super addiction”. Again, the tobacco companies are in profit because “now kids are also their consumers.”

< III>The Creative & Appealing “Advertising Slogans” for flavored menthol capsules in cigarettes filters ((Created by tobacco companies which put the illusions in our heads)) such as ---

Click, switch & refresh

Click & Roll

Press, activate & fresh

 Squeeze, click & change

Press the filter to change the taste,

Your taste,  Your style, etc.>>

It all makes the Cigarettes to be looked as -- safer, healthier and easier to try out by the Youngsters and kids which even do not realize the “Smoking danger levels and the Reality of carcinogens in them.”

All the ‘‘Engineering & Chemistry’’ behind, including –

(a) advertising in television, social media & magazines, 

(b) box packaging representation,

(c) introduction of Additives that are highly addictive itself,  increasing the addiction potential of tobacco products, has given them“freedom to manipulate & play illusion with all of ours life.”

Tobacco companies have successfully managed to sit behind our heads for decades by creating the“illusion of adhesives in cigarettes : Masking all the Carcinogens in them & yet they giggle on us, making their billion-dollar industry.”

Many countries governments are working on by imposing restrictions on smoking tobacco especially in public areas with the help of laws but still the billion dollars market of the tobacco companies is still at its peaks.

“Also, the technology might be developed further (by these tobacco companies) ---to keep launching new products in order to win over new, young smokers and keep long-standing smokers from quitting.”

At last, all that benefits are the tobacco companies and who loses are the Kids and Youngsters—the rising future of the world.

Other Good Applications of Menthol-- 

It doesn’t mean Menthol is bad yet, it has its Other wide range of applications such as—

 In Lip balms and cough medicines,

in oral hygiene products and bad-breath remedies, such as mouthwash, toothpaste, mouth and tongue sprays, and more generally as a food flavor agent; such as in chewing gum and candy,

In first aid products such as “mineral ice”, etc.