USA Today

Where does menthol cigarette ban stand? Inside the high-stakes battle at Biden's door.

NEW YORK – On his Brooklyn stoop, Marcel Bichotte could hold notes on his saxophone for what felt like hours. Bichotte was an accomplished musician with the big-band group Super Jazz des Jeunes, or ...
Yahoo

Westchester votes to ban menthol, flavored tobacco: What it means, why some oppose it

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Westchester would become New York’s first county to ban flavored tobacco, including popular menthol cigarettes, under a law passed ...
Chicago Tribune

Richard Boykin: President Joe Biden’s dithering on menthol cigarette ban will cost Black lives

Fretting political backlash from Black voters in November, President Joe Biden has indefinitely delayed the Food and Drug Administration’s recommended ban on menthol-flavored cigarettes. Biden fails ...
CNN

Biden administration must decide soon on menthol cigarettes or risk proposed ban going up in smoke, advocates say

Health advocates and activists plan to intensify their push for a ban on menthol cigarettes this week, ratcheting up pressure on the White House ahead of what they say is a critical deadline.
The Pantagraph

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING: FDA is right to ban menthol cigarettes

Take a deep breath, America. We’ve made serious progress against cigarette smoking. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 23% of adults were smokers in 2000. By 2020, the ...
Princeton University

As FDA considers menthol cigarette ban, Princeton historian traces Big Tobacco’s race-based marketing

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 ...
Post and Courier

MEDICAL INSIGHTS: What are the benefits of menthol?

Menthol is an organic compound derived from the oils of peppermint, and other types of mint plants. There are about 600 types of mint on our planet, and some of our ancestors began using this plant ...
West Central Tribune

American Opinion: The FDA is right to ban menthol cigarettes

Summary: The tobacco industry has argued that a ban on menthol products would only cause menthol smokers to turn to regular cigarettes. But a 2020 meta-study that included examinations of places where ...
Forbes

"What Is The FDA Inhaling?": Steve Forbes Slams Proposed Menthol Cigarette Rules

The Food & Drug Administration is proposing rules to prohibit menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. This episode of What’s Ahead lays out why the move is utterly misbegotten. Well over one-third of ...
Reason

The FDA's Menthol Cigarette Ban Is a 'Racial Justice' Issue, but Not in the Way Its Supporters Mean

Supporters of the ban on menthol cigarettes that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed today say it is "a racial justice issue." They are right about that, but not in the way they mean. The ...
Los Angeles Times

The FDA is right to ban menthol cigarettes

Take a deep breath, America. We’ve made serious progress against cigarette smoking. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 23% of adults were smokers in 2000. By 2020, the ...