WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Thursday that it’s moving forward with its effort to ban menthol cigarettes, as well as flavored cigars. In a press release, the FDA ...

The Food and Drug Administration sent its final proposal to the White House that would ban the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. The debate over the ban has gone on for over 18 months, ...

The Biden administration is putting off its plan to ban menthol cigarettes until next March after an aggressive lobbying push by civil rights groups -- some sponsored by Big Tobacco -- who argued a ...

Aides to President Joe Biden remain divided on a plan to ban menthol cigarette sales, according to several people familiar with the matter who say concerns of voter backlash in the election and ...

Medical groups say the FDA's recent move to ban menthol in cigarettes and cigars is long overdue. It's been a decades-long battle that some say, finally, has a happy ending. As a kid, Nia Heard-Garris ...

The “war on drugs” — especially marijuana — and a possible FDA ban on menthol cigarettes are racial justice issues that should concern African-Americans and members of other over-policed communities, ...

In 2009, Congress enacted legislation authorizing the U.S. Federal Food and Drug Administration to comprehensively regulate tobacco and nicotine products. Included in that legislation was the ...