The state Department of Health Services has launched a $72,000 public awareness campaign to highlight the risks of menthol cigarettes, which have been heavily marketed to Black communities by the ...

TACOMA, Wash. — National studies show a vast majority of Black smokers are menthol smokers. How exactly, the minty cigarettes became the choice of thousands of Black smokers nationwide has been an ...

A long-awaited federal ban on menthol cigarettes and cigars remains in limbo, after the White House delayed finalizing a proposed rule until at least this month. In states like California and ...

Long-awaited federal rules that would ban menthol flavoring in cigarettes have been delayed, angering health advocates who charge that the Biden Administration has postponed the ban to avoid ...

In 2009, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, signed into law by President Obama just months after taking office, banned many kinds of flavored tobacco, from cinnamon to candy to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration this week is expected to propose a ban on menthol cigarettes, a move backed by civil rights groups that say Black Americans are hurt by the industry's ...