In New Jersey, a pack of cigarettes costs $8; in Manhattan, a pack costs $11. For many, those prices mean it's time to quit or cut back. But Foulds says it's not quite that simple when the body is ...

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.

One pack of 20 Newports typically sells for about $9 in the city after taxes. There's also a vibrant market for menthol "loosies," or individual cigarettes, which sell anywhere from 50 cents to $1 ...

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 ...