A ban on menthol cigarettes will save lives, experts say. It’s not that simple.
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6 min readApr 12, 2021
The Biden administration is under pressure to ban menthol cigarettes, and for good reason: A menthol ban will probably save hundreds of thousands of lives, many of them Black lives.
A ban would be the biggest change to tobacco regulation in years. Menthol cigarettes account for more than a third of all cigarette sales in the US…
