are they going to quit making menthol cigarettes This is victory': Anti-smoking advocates applaud FDA's move ban and flavored cigars What's Happening with Menthol Cigarettes

The delay, acknowledged in an online posting Wednesday, is a major defeat for health advocates who have been pushing for years to limit access to menthol cigarettes, which are aggressively marketed in Black communities

When the settlement was reached in 1998, projections for future payments were made based on estimates of market developments, but they have turned out to be overly optimistic

Yet, when the FDA banned flavor claims on regular cigarettes, Congress exempted menthol in 2009, to the dismay of health advocates

On April 11, former FDA heads Gottlieb and Mark McClellan published an op-ed calling for the FDA to make modified risk products a renewed part of the US public health agenda. Sweanor pointed to Japan, where cigarette demand fell by more than half between 2010 and 2022, according to the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, coinciding with the introduction of a heated tobacco product

This decision keeps the Presidents promise to follow the science and put Americas kids, and racial and health equity, at the center of his agenda