The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving forward with plans to ban menthol cigarettes and all flavored cigars—policies that agency officials say could help prevent some of the roughly 500 ...

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 ...

We applaud the recent action by the Biden administration to restrict the sales of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. In this article, we review the rationale for a ban and offer recommendations ...

As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wrestles with the best way to regulate a legal but deadly product – cigarettes – it turns to scientists with expertise in tobacco control to determine the most ...

New research published in Health Economics indicates that a national prohibition of menthol cigarettes in the United States could increase the number of people who attempt to quit smoking but also ...

When Massachusetts and California took steps to ban menthol cigarettes in 2020 and 2022, respectively, it took just days for new, nonmenthol cigarettes to appear in stores. The packaging for these ...

In 2009, Congress enacted legislation authorizing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to comprehensively regulate tobacco and nicotine products. Included in that legislation was the prohibition of ...