Op-Ed: I hope the presence of menthol products will soon be just as taboo as smoking inside restaurants. It’s been nearly 23 ...

President Joe Biden’s administration in December pressed the brakes on a plan to ban menthol cigarettes. They are popular with Black smokers but have been found by federal health officials to be ...

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 ...

Health advocates and activists plan to intensify their push for a ban on menthol cigarettes this week, ratcheting up pressure on the White House ahead of what they say is a critical deadline.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government on Thursday released its long-awaited plan to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, citing the toll on Black smokers and young people. "The proposed rules would ...

The Food and Drug Administration has announced plans to ban menthol cigarettes, which the tobacco industry has aggressively marketed toward... How the tobacco industry targeted Black Americans with ...

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 ...

Researchers from Rutgers University discovered that 54% of adult bisexual female smokers prefer menthol cigarettes, as do half of all gay female smokers. Overall, 61% of smokers prefer conventional ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids who experiment with menthol cigarettes are more likely to become habitual smokers than their peers who start out with the regular variety, new research findings ...

SMOKING may be under siege, but it is still the world’s second biggest cause of preventable death. Tobacco kills nearly 6 million people every year, approximately 10 per cent of all deaths. Smoking ...

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Left: A Kool cigarettes advertisement targeting Black communities for a sponsored event, the Kool Jazz Festival; Right: A Newport cigarettes ad targeting young Black customers. (Stanford Research into ...