A majority of adults in the United States support policies that prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes and all tobacco products according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

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 ...

Tobacco stands in ... its competitors with new cigarettes that offer the U.S. smoker everything from rum flavor to air-conditioned paper. The boom in menthol cigarettes is the hottest fad to ...

Menthol cigarettes and the tobacco industry are — quite literally — robbing our communities of life. The impact on Black health has been enormous. Today, 85% of Black smokers use menthol ...

Case and point; In 2017, British American Tobacco shelled out nearly $50 billion to buy Newport maker Reynolds American, which is the top U.S. menthol-cigarette brand. Menthols account for roughly ...

Kathy Hochul's state budget proposal to ban menthol-flavored cigarettes is heating up. As part of her proposed budget, Hochul suggested banning the sale of all flavored vaping and tobacco products ...

In 2022, Earl Fowlkes, a Black gay activist, denounced tobacco companies ... to approve more e-cigarette products and tobacco firms fight a Biden administration plan to ban menthol cigarettes.

Westchester would become New York’s first county to ban flavored tobacco, including popular menthol cigarettes, under a law passed Monday night by the county Board of Legislators. The law now ...

Menthol cigarettes represent nearly 40% of all cigarettes purchased and consumed by Americans. When menthol tobacco products were emerging in 1933, however, the brand Kool represented only 2% of ...

Other counties that have banned menthol have seen drops in tobacco sales and use and increases in quitting behaviours. No similar reforms for the United States Menthol cigarettes have been heavily ...