In New York, he started smoking menthol cigarettes. His daughter, New York Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, said he smoked a pack a day. The long notes ended after her father became ...

The Biden Administration delayed its ban on menthol cigarettes until March, posing a major defeat for advocates who have been pushing to limit its sales for years. Menthol cigarettes can enhance ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has taken a “momentous” step toward banning menthol in cigarettes and banning flavored cigars, sending final rules to the White House Office of Management ...

The original ban on menthol cigarettes was proposed over two years ago, after extensive research on the effects of the minty flavoring. Many public health advocacy groups expressed dismay ...

New research published in Health Economics indicates that a national prohibition of menthol cigarettes in the United States ...

The Trump administration's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally withdrew a proposed rule seeking to ban menthol cigarettes, after the Biden administration said it intended to make the ban ...

Menthol cigarettes have a minty flavor that soothes the throat and masks the harshness of smoking, making it easier for kids to start and harder for smokers to quit. In the 1950s, less than 10% of ...

"My dad exclusively smokes menthol cigarettes," he says. "Menthol was such a part of Black culture. And I knew that Black people smoked menthol and that was just a fact." The 29-year-old filmmaker ...

Activists and health advocates are pressing the Biden administration to ban menthol cigarettes ahead of an FDA deadline. Black community leaders and public health advocates marched toward the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — In a few months, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to release final regulations to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. Some lawmakers are taking up the ...