Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert M. Califf announced this. week that the agency plans to seek a ban on menthol cigarettes and cigars.

This ironically comes in the wake of recent research that shows menthol smokers have no greater difficulty giving up smoking than non‐menthol smokers. Even more ironic is the fact that FDA researchers reported in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research:

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