Now anti-tobacco groups say they worry the rule won't happen at all, especially in an election ... against criminal prosecution of Black and Brown communities, the proposed menthol ban will ...

The proposed rule, issued by the Food and Drug Administration in April 2022, would prohibit menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and ban all characterizing flavors, other than tobacco ...

More than half of US adults support ending the sale of all tobacco products ... and with a high prevalence of menthol cigarette use (eg, non-Hispanic Black adults),” they wrote in the study.

Nearly 85% of Black smokers and 30% of White smokers use menthol cigarettes, according to the FDA. All told, roughly 28 million American adults smoke cigarettes and more than 480,000 die annually ...

The annual campaign addresses the detrimental impact that smoking tobacco has on Black communities ... “In Philadelphia many years ago, Reverend Jesse Brown, and also Dr. Bob Robinson — who I believe ...

This is the first time her Brown Deer ... for a Tobacco Free Wisconsin. But Black people who smoke, disproportionately die from cancer, heart disease and stroke — all diseases caused by smoking ...