Robert Jackler, a Stanford doctor and tobacco marketing expert, calls them, "non-menthol – wink, wink – menthol," meaning that the confusing similarities between menthol and their new ...

This confluence soon led her to smoke about a pack of Newport menthol cigarettes daily. "It just became a full-blown addiction," said Glover, a math teacher in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

In 2019, Massachusetts became the first state to ban flavored and menthol tobacco products. However, as a result of the ban, an illegal market in cigarettes has grown, challenging the ability of ...

A menthol ban would have particular impact on Black communities, which tobacco companies heavily target with marketing of menthol products, contributing to a higher rate of cancer deaths.

A long-awaited federal ban on menthol cigarettes and cigars remains in limbo, after the White House delayed finalizing a proposed rule until at least this month. In states like California and ...

The alternatives have a similar taste, packaging and marketing. Anti-smoking activists say this is a way to get around state and federal bans. With a federal menthol ban looming, tobacco companies ...