Menthol cigarettes represent nearly 40% of all cigarettes purchased and consumed by Americans. When menthol tobacco products were emerging in 1933, however, the brand Kool represented only 2% of the ...

Half a century ago, faced with broadcast advertising bans stemming from overwhelming evidence of the harms of smoking, the tobacco industry used menthol cigarettes to secure new markets among Black ...

The FDA announced Thursday it hopes to ban menthol in cigarettes and cigars, citing its particularly harmful impact on Black communities, to whom they were heavily marketed. William Brangham has more ...

Following a report issued by the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) last week claiming that a menthol cigarette ban would be beneficial to public health, journalist Denise Mann ...

The packaging on Kool brand's "non-menthol" cigarettes and its existing menthols are very similar. Anti-smoking activists argue this is a way to get around any ban on menthol cigarettes by appealing ...

Left: A Kool cigarettes advertisement targeting Black communities for a sponsored event, the Kool Jazz Festival; Right: A Kent cigarettes ad targeting Black smokers. Lincoln Mondy grew up in a mixed ...

The U.S. government on Thursday released its long-awaited plan to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, citing the toll on Black smokers and young people. “The proposed rules would help prevent ...

Like me, Judge Otis D. Wright of the Central District of California remembers KOOL. A once leading menthol cigarette label, KOOL brands and its owner ITG Brands, LLC sued Capna Intellectual claiming ...

When you ask Debra Lewis about her efforts to quit smoking menthol cigarettes, she will tell you plainly: Quitting crack cocaine was easier. In 1980s South Los Angeles, Lewis and her friends were ...