Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the Biden administration moves closer to banning menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, major health organizations are pushing ...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts became the first state to ban flavored tobacco and nicotine vaping products, including menthol cigarettes, after Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law on Wednesday ...

The FDA seems intent on imposing a ban on menthol cigarettes and cigars, despite evidence from Europe that it only fuels a black market. And despite evidence in the U.S. that it may worsen inequities ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man lighting a menthol cigarette. Elijah Kinlaw, 24, smokes after his shift at a local roofing company in Central Florida. He ...

Menthol cigarette bans are effective at getting people to quit smoking, new research finds. The US Food and Drug Administration has said that a menthol ban is a “top priority,” but public health ...

NEW YORK – On his Brooklyn stoop, Marcel Bichotte could hold notes on his saxophone for what felt like hours. Bichotte was an accomplished musician with the big-band group Super Jazz des Jeunes, or ...

The White House has missed its deadline to publish a rule banning menthol cigarettes, raising ire among public health advocates that the policy will be indefinitely delayed by election year politics.

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 ...

In 2009, Congress authorized the FDA to regulate tobacco but excluded menthol as a compromise. Health organizations state menthol increases nicotine addiction and has been aggressively marketed to ...

Here we go again. The FDA is putting menthol cigarettes in its crosshairs again, not because they're any more likely to cause illness than regular cigarettes, but because they can serve as a gateway ...

As the Biden administration moves closer to banning menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, major health organizations are pushing to get the word out to Black smokers that help is available for those ...