Richardson cited the 2023 National Youth Tobacco Survey, which found that nearly 1 in 4 high school e-cigarette users used menthol-flavored e-cigarettes.The FDA has found, in its denials of ...

A proposed ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars was withdrawn by the Trump administration, a blow to public health advocates who attribute thousands of premature deaths to the additive.

When Congress banned all flavors in cigarettes — with the exception of menthol — in 2009, many smokers switched to flavored cigars, undermining the healthy intention of the flavor ban, the FDA ...

The Biden administration recently stopped a plan to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes. The excellent arguments for why they are dangerous were overcome by good arguments for why making them ...

It is now clear that policies that amount to prohibition have serious racial justice implications." Smoking can cause cancer, strokes and heart attacks and is blamed for 480,000 annual deaths.

It's also still not clear the extent to which current menthol smokers will adopt these new substitutes. That's also still unclear, because there is no sales data yet.

A federal ban on menthol cigarettes would be one of the most effective ways to save lives, Black Americans, the Surgeon General said. But the Biden administration isn't likely to do anything about it.

The largest U.S. tobacco companies have considerable financial stakes in the menthol cigarette market, which the Federal Trade Commission estimates is a little more than one-third of all U.S ...

Previous attempts to regulate menthol cigarettes have been met with an alarming trend of stalled action from the FDA. In both 2013 and 2018, the FDA published a notice of proposed rulemaking to ...

The FDA first began regulating e-cigarettes in August 2016 and it has authorized 27 e-cigarette products for sale in the U.S. to date, including Altria-owned NJOY’s menthol vape products.

Also, 3.9% of all adults in Massachusetts reported smoking menthol in 2019, compared with 3.8% in 2022. “The data is clear: bans do not work,” NECSEMA Executive Director Peter Brennan said in ...

When Congress banned all flavors in cigarettes — with the exception of menthol — in 2009, many smokers switched to flavored cigars, undermining the healthy intention of the flavor ban, the FDA ...