The Biden administration announced its intention Thursday to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, including menthol. "Banning menthol—the last allowable flavor—in cigarettes and banning all ...

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.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The FDA's proposal to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars is being applauded by advocates and doctors, who believe the step could help continue a trend of decreased smoking ...

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 ...

Cigarettes are just plain bad, as we all know by now. But what about the ones that contain menthol? Are they worse? A panel of experts is mulling menthol and trying to come up with some advice for the ...

The Biden administration will further delay a long-awaited ban on menthol cigarettes after fierce lobbying from critics who warn that a prohibition could anger some Black smokers who favor the ...

Menthol gives cough drops, lip balm and other drugstore remedies that cool minty taste and slight numbing quality. Now the Food and Drug Administration has taken a long-awaited step toward saying that ...

When you ask Debra Lewis about her efforts to quit smoking menthol cigarettes, she will tell you plainly: Quitting crack cocaine was easier. In 1980s South Los Angeles, Lewis and her friends were ...

The Food and Drug Administration appears likely to move to ban menthol in cigarettes this week — a step, experts say, that has been years in the making and that could have a significant positive ...