If conventional cigarettes are banned, many consumers would turn to the black market rather than settle for legal very low ...

Trump's FDA moved to squash a proposed rule to ban menthol cigarettes just one day after the president was sworn in, angering ...

The Trump administrations removed FDA's plan to ban menthol cigarettes. The Biden administration did not finalize the rule ...

Black Americans, a key voting block, smoke disproportionately more menthol cigarettes than other racial and ethnic groups, and many groups lobbied against the ban. While the Food and Drug ...

“We continue to strongly support eliminating menthol cigarettes to end the tobacco industry’s decades-long, predatory marketing of these products to kids, Black Americans and other communities,” ...

But avoiding that pitfall by mandating an immediate cut to a negligible nicotine level would magnify the black-market effects of de facto cigarette prohibition. Given the disastrous results of the ...

President Donald Trump rescinded a proposed ban on menthol cigarettes, which was put forward by his predecessor, former President Joe Biden.

In cigarette markets, consumers tend to shop across borders where the tax rates are lower and dealers develop black and gray markets to sell illegally to consumers, paying little or no tax at all." ...