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A menthol cigarette is a cigarette infused with the compound menthol which imparts a “minty” flavor to the smoke. Menthol also decreases irritant sensations from nicotine by desensitizing receptors, making smoking feel less harsh compared to regular cigarettes.
Cigarettes may be flavored to mask the taste or odor of the tobacco smoke, enhance the tobacco flavor, or decrease the social stigma associated with smoking. [3] Flavors are generally added to the tobacco or rolling paper, although some cigarette brands have unconventional flavor delivery mechanisms such as inserting flavored pellets or rods into the cigarette filter. [3]
The Biden administration has not yet ordered a ban on menthol cigarettes, ... More than 45,000 Black people die from smoking each year, according to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
If and when the FDA bans menthol, it could save up to 654,000 lives within just four decades, according to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. A third of those lives saved would be among the Black ...
Trump's FDA moved to squash a proposed rule to ban menthol cigarettes just one day after the ... a timely manner and has now been withdrawn," the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids said in a statement
Axton-Fisher Tobacco Company, founded in 1903, was a Louisville, Kentucky-based manufacturer of cigarettes that played a key role in popularizing menthol cigarettes, with its Spud brand. It was acquired by Philip Morris Companies Inc. in 1944. Spud cigarettes advertisement in The American Magazine (February, 1932)
The Food and Drug Administration had in April 2022 proposed to ban the sale of flavored cigars and menthol cigarettes after several health advocacy groups said they were highly addictive, and ...
Race-specific advertising exacerbated small (a few percent) racial differences in menthol cigarette product preferences into large (tens of percent) ones. [46] Menthol cigarettes are somewhat more addictive, [18] and it has been argued that race-specific marketing for a more addictive product is a social injustice. [47] [48]