The FDA's proposed ban on menthol cigarettes follows a larger public health effort to prevent tobacco-related deaths.
in electronic cigarettes, forcing manufacturers to comply with the same standards as other products that contain tobacco-based nicotine.
“I see no downside to eliminating menthol from cigarettes,” says Vaughan Rees, director of the Center for Global Tobacco Control at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “I think the US is finally coming to grips with this long-standing issue, and I sincerely hope that the FDA takes decisive action on it.
Additionally, menthol interacts with nicotine in the brain to boost its addictive effects, the FDA says. For all of these reasons, it argues, menthol increases the risk that young people who start smoking will become hooked.
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