CNN

Ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars could save hundreds of thousands of lives, experts say

The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to announce a proposed rule this week to ban menthol from cigarettes, as well as to ban flavored cigars. It’s a step that public health officials say is ...
Healio

Switch to non-menthol cigarettes improves quit rate in African Americans on varenicline

Among African American menthol smokers receiving varenicline plus nicotine replacement therapy, a larger proportion quit ...
New Republic

Is It Racist to Ban Menthol Cigarettes—or Not To?

To stop kids from smoking, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb wants to stop nicotine from tasting like candy. So he proposed two new restrictions on cigarette and e-cigarette ...
Yahoo

FDA allows first ever menthol e-cigarettes to be sold in US

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (The Hill) — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday authorized the first ever nontobacco flavored electronic cigarettes ...
NPR

Menthol: Great In Aftershave, Not So Much In Cigarettes

Menthol gives cough drops, lip balm and other drugstore remedies that cool minty taste and slight numbing quality. Now the Food and Drug Administration has taken a long-awaited step toward saying that ...
Yahoo

Targeted menthol cigarette ads helped lead to high Black usage. Should they be banned?

Menthol ads went after Black consumers for decades "Feel the extra coolness in your throat," read one 1964 cigarette advertisement featuring a handsome Black couple with Kool menthol cigarettes lodged ...
NPR

Should Menthol Cigarettes Be Banned?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is debating a ban on menthol cigarettes as their slightly minty taste can cover up tobacco's harshness. That touched off a firestorm of debate within the ...
Los Angeles Times

Q&A: The FDA is taking aim at menthol and other tobacco flavorings. Here’s why that may be tricky

The Food & Drug Administration this week announced new initiatives aimed at stemming the increase in young Americans’ use of tobacco and its primary psychoactive agent, nicotine. The object of FDA ...
CNN

FDA takes ‘momentous’ step toward banning menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars

The US Food and Drug Administration has taken a “momentous” step toward banning menthol in cigarettes and banning flavored cigars, sending final rules to the White House Office of Management and ...
Politico

FDA says it will ban menthol cigarettes and all flavored cigars

The agency has long faced calls to act on menthol cigarettes, which are disproportionately smoked by Black Americans and teens just starting to use tobacco. Momentum for banning menthol cigarettes has ...
Medical Xpress

Menthol ban would save 650,000 lives in the next 40 years

Banning menthol flavors in cigarettes could reduce smoking by 15% by having smokers giving up tobacco products altogether or switching to e-cigarettes and other nicotine vaping products—avoiding ...