Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK – On his Brooklyn stoop, Marcel Bichotte could hold notes on his saxophone for what felt like hours. Bichotte was an ...

Introduction Tobacco industry introduced cigarettes with synthetic cooling agents (hereafter, ‘flavour ban-proof’ cigarettes) ...

Menthol ads went after Black consumers for decades "Feel the extra coolness in your throat," read one 1964 cigarette advertisement featuring a handsome Black couple with Kool menthol cigarettes lodged ...

To stop kids from smoking, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb wants to stop nicotine from tasting like candy. So he proposed two new restrictions on cigarette and e-cigarette ...

The Center for Black Health and Equity, a nationally recognized public health organization focused on issues affecting African American populations, renewed its call to action following “No Menthol ...

In 2009, Congress took the important step of banning flavored cigarettes that enticed youth to start smoking. However, that landmark legislation contained a significant flaw: a loophole that allowed ...

Menthol gives cough drops, lip balm and other drugstore remedies that cool minty taste and slight numbing quality. Now the Food and Drug Administration has taken a long-awaited step toward saying that ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has taken a “momentous” step toward banning menthol in cigarettes and banning flavored cigars, sending final rules to the White House Office of Management and ...

The agency has long faced calls to act on menthol cigarettes, which are disproportionately smoked by Black Americans and teens just starting to use tobacco. Momentum for banning menthol cigarettes has ...

When you ask Debra Lewis about her efforts to quit smoking menthol cigarettes, she will tell you plainly: Quitting crack cocaine was easier. In 1980s South Los Angeles, Lewis and her friends were ...