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 ...

A ban on menthol cigarettes would likely lead to a meaningful reduction in smoking rates, a new review argues. Almost a quarter of menthol smokers quit smoking altogether after menthol cigarettes were ...

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 ...

As public health groups pressure the Biden administration to impose a ban on menthol cigarettes, research suggests similar moves in other countries have led to lower smoking rates. By Christina Jewett ...

A new paper published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research finds that banning the sale of menthol cigarettes would likely lead to a meaningful reduction in smoking rates. Menthol cigarettes are of ...

While the overall rate of cigarette smoking has decreased in the United States, the use of menthol cigarettes has risen among young adult smokers. A University of Oklahoma researcher published a study ...

Around eight in 10 African American smokers consume menthol cigarettes, compared with three in 10 white smokers - Copyright AFP/File MOHAMMED ABED Around eight in 10 ...

Big Tobacco is big business, and they make their living killing people. There’s a war being waged over menthol cigarettes, and Black people have a choice to make. It’s not always comfortable, and ...

You wouldn’t think it would be easy to get nearly 4.5 million Americans—the equivalent of the entire state of Louisiana or Kentucky—to give up smoking. But it can be done in a single, straightforward ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Menthol cigarette bans are effective at getting people to quit smoking, new research finds. The new research, published Wednesday in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research, looked at studies ...

Nearly one-quarter of menthol cigarette smokers quit in the year or two after a ban on menthol went into effect, according to a study published Wednesday. Researchers found that about half of the ...