FDA panel: Ban on menthol cigarettes would benefit public healthAndrew Zajac
For years, smoking cessation activists along with many groups representing African Americans have been pushing for a ban on menthol cigarettes, which are very popular among black smokers. The tobacco industry has been marketing mint-flavored cigarettes to communities of color for decades. But some ...
"It's a crime that this has gone on for so long—that they've focused on the most vulnerable population, like the African American community... We see the disparities and the results in Black patients because of menthol cigarettes. They don't do as well as white patients...
The Biden administration has again delayed enacting a ban on menthol cigarettes following intense lobbying from the tobacco industry. Along with that pressure, other critics of the ban have warned that it might anger Black smokers, who use menthol cigarettes at far higher rates than whites—just ...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday announced its proposed rule on product standards to ban menthol flavoring in cigarettes and non-tobacco flavors in cigars. The Biden administration believes this action has the potential to "significantly reduce disease and death" from smoking by ...
FDA seeks nationwide ban on menthol cigarettesThe Food and Drug Administration said it will seek a nationwide ban on menthol cigarettes. It also plans to put new restrictions on flavored e-cigarettes. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook explains.Nov 16, 2018...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced it will once again try to ban menthol cigarettes, as well as all flavored cigars — adding that it aims to introduce the regulations in the coming year. The FDA has attempted several times to get rid of menthol but face...
as the US remains primarily focused on banning e-cigarettes, it has ironically so far retained a relaxed stance towards the much deadlier products. For example, a legislation to ban all flavoured vaping and tobacco products in Colorado has been amended to allow the sales of menthol cigarettes. ...
Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, said the organization has been calling for a ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored e-cigarettes for years. "For decades, the tobacco industry has been targeting African Americans and h...
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 goo