First added to tobacco in the 1920s and 1930s, menthol reduces the harshness of cigarette smoke and the irritation from nicotine. Under the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act that ...

In 2018, Gottlieb labeled teen vaping an “epidemic” and proposed ways of curbing flavored e-cigarettes, saying he wanted to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars as well. The issue caught ...

RAI Services Company, a subsidiary of Reynolds American, the creator of Newport menthol cigarettes, is the largest corporate donor to the Make America Great Again super PAC. The cigarette company ...

The Food and Drug Administration's top tobacco official said Monday that the Biden administration is still pursuing its proposal to ban menthol flavored cigarettes, months after advocacy groups ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – While the overall rate of cigarette smoking has decreased in the United States, the use of menthol cigarettes has risen among young adult smokers. A University of Oklahoma researcher ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – While the overall rate of cigarette smoking has decreased in the United States, the use of menthol cigarettes has risen among young adult smokers. A University of Oklahoma ...

Menthol cigarette use was highest among adults who smoke who identify as Black or African American (88%) and those who identify as Hispanic (70%); it was lowest among those who identify as White ...

umich.edu Background Menthol cigarettes are thought to encourage smoking initiation among youths and young adults and make it more difficult for smokers to quit, thus increasing cigarette harm.

Introduction This study examines how current smokers using menthol cigarettes or flavoured cigars, and current users of flavoured e-cigarettes may respond to three hypothetical flavour-ban scenarios: ...

Left unmentioned, however, was another divisive though less high-profile public health issue: the fate of menthol cigarettes. The Biden administration’s Food and Drug Administration formally ...

It sounds far-fetched – isn’t cigarette smoking a major public health hazard that affects Blacks disproportionately? It is, but African-American smokers, especially men, do favor menthol ...