Menthol cigarettes represent nearly 40% of all cigarettes purchased and consumed by Americans. When menthol tobacco products were emerging in 1933, however, the brand Kool represented only 2% of the ...

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration's top tobacco official said Monday that the Biden administration is still pursuing its proposal to ban menthol flavored cigarettes, months after advocacy groups ...

(CNN) — Four menthol vaping products were authorized by the US Food and Drug Administration on Friday, the first non-tobacco-flavored e-cigarette products to get the agency’s sign-off. (CNN) — Four ...

Nearly half of Americans who smoke use menthol cigarettes that are harder to quit, driving up their health risks with every puff. Now, a new University of Michigan study will test the best way to help ...

The Food and Drug Administration released draft guidance on Monday explaining how it plans to evaluate premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) for flavored electronic nicotine delivery systems.

Exactly three weeks after the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared racism a serious public health threat, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) faces a decision that could have a ...

The federal government’s intention to ban menthol cigarettes—a $25 billion U.S. market—is probably best described as an endless marathon. The next leg of the legal endurance contest has a finish line ...

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