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The Biden administration indefinitely delayed implementing a long-awaited ban on menthol tobacco products, outraging anti-smoking advocates who say the White House is prioritizing politics...
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.
A federal ban on menthol cigarettes would be one of the most effective ways to save lives, Black Americans, the Surgeon General said. But the Biden administration isn't likely to do anything about it.
The Food and Drug Administration's top tobacco official said Monday that the Biden administration is still pursuing its proposal to ban menthol flavored cigarettes, months after advocacy...
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is announcing proposed product standards to prohibit menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and prohibit all characterizing flavors (other...
The proposed menthol cigarette ban was originally announced in April 2022.At the time, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement that the rule "would help prevent children from becoming the ...
A ban on menthol cigarettes could eliminate some significant health disparities, according to a study from the Council on Foreign Relations.
A proposed ban on menthol cigarettes in the US “will take significantly more time,” US Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement Friday, delaying a decision that...
The AMA and other organizations have added people directly affected by menthol cigarette smoking as plaintiffs to a lawsuit they filed earlier this year that aims to ensure that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at last issues a final rule to ban the habit-forming cigarette.
Menthol is the only cigarette flavor that wasn’t banned under that law, a carveout negotiated by industry allies in Congress. But the law instructed the FDA to continue studying the issue....