The Food and Drug Administration yesterday proposed restricting the sales of flavored e-cigarettes and banning menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars outright in what is considered its toughest actions against the tobacco industry in years. The FDA’s long, fact-filled news release leads with ...
But they don’t ban them outright, and they still allow flavors like mint and menthol to be sold on shelves. The FDA’s decision to allow those products to stay on shelves worried experts at the time. “Those are flavors that are also quite popular among people,” Kathleen Hoke, a ...
The Social Democratic Party and the Greens voted against the bill, saying it was not strict enough – particularly as it does not ban menthol cigarettes. But the conservative and centrist majority put forward economic arguments. The right-wing populist Swiss People’s Party said the legislati...