FDA menthol cigarette ban proposal overview:
- Who: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent a proposed ban on the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget for review.
- Why: The FDA argues banning menthol-flavored cigarettes would significantly reduce tobacco-related diseases and deaths, including among African Americans and other minorities.
- Where: A ban on menthol cigarettes would be nationwide.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent a proposed rule banning the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review.
The FDA first announced the proposal last year as a way to prevent youth from being initiated into purchasing the tobacco products and to “significantly reduce” tobacco-related disease and death.
The agency has also said it believes that tobacco flavors like menthol disproportionately impact minorities — and has pledged to do away with them — with the rules stop at the OMB the last in the regulatory process before the agency issues its final reviews, reports Law360.
“Finalizing these two product standards remains a top priority for the FDA,” said Brian King, the director of the FDA’s tobacco center, in a statement, as reported by CNN.
FDA estimates menthol cigarette ban would prevent 324,000 to 654,000 smoking-related deaths in next 40 years
The FDA estimates that banning the sale of menthol cigarettes would reduce smoking by 15% in the 40 years and prevent 324,000 to 654,000 smoking attributable deaths overall during the same time period.
The avoidable smoking-related deaths include 92,000 to 238,000 African Americans, according to the agency, which said the rate of menthol cigarette smokers is particularly high among youth, young adults, and African American and other racial and ethnic minority groups.
“The proposed rules would help prevent children from becoming the next generation of smokers and help adult smokers quit,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, in a statement made last year.
While Congress passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act in 2009, the law did not include menthol in a list of banned tobacco flavors, with lawmakers instructing the FDA at that time to research menthol, reports Law360.
A class action lawsuit was filed against Walgreens last year over claims the company fails to warn its customers that menthol cigarettes it sells pose added health risks than the traditional non-menthol cigarettes it sells.
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47 thoughts onFDA sends proposed menthol cigarette ban to White House for review
My opinion it’s stupid to ban menthols whether it’s menthol or non-menthol people r still gonna smoke we choose to smoke so what difference does it make no e at all.
Banning menthol won’t change anything! If someone wants to smoke they are going to smoke regardless! It’s their choice to smoke menthol or not and now you want to force smokers that have been smoking menthol cigarettes for years to stop by taking their right to a choice! Marijuana has been legalized in many places so you would rather our kids be high? Stop trying to control people by taking things away when you can’t control a lot of other issues that are more important!!
STOP WASTING MY TAX DOLLARS!
DO YOUR JOB ON REAL ISSUES THAT IMPACT ALL AMERICANS , LIKE YA KNOW INFLATION!!
With the FDA and Congress putting all of this deadly shit in our food but they think that menthol cigarettes are the cause of death. I swear it seems they will put any idiot in office now days. I only wish that our taxes that we pay towards research and to better this country with our real votes counted. Since they don’t then why should we vote or even pay taxes. We do it because we truly care about this country and because we are grown adults that stand for values and for what’s right. Ban what you want, do what you want, it won’t stop me from fighting back.
They got to be way more important things going on in the world and y’all worried about menthol cigarettes
Hey FDA ! I you keep your nose out of my ass this would be a better world. (Cause we all no you are just trying to keep you jobs) So stop you S##t
Add me please, buy them always
Yes I have smoked menthol for many years and I’ve been in another hospital for long issues it’s worse than the regular cigarettes because of its menthol it keeps making you want to smoke now my daughter smokes and she’s sicker than heck I wish all cigarettes and cigars were banned would save taxpayers a lot of money with hospital bills
People will smoke, regardless!! I agree with previous comments, doesn’t the White House have bigger fish to fry??? We shouldn’t eat fast food, yet those places are popping up all over the place…
I think people know the dangers of smoking, none of us are morons!!! Thanks!!!
They been talking hot air about banning menthol cigarettes for a couple of years, they need to just go ahead and Ban Menthol Cigarettes so I can finally quit after nearly 40 years
Stop telling me what I can and can’t have you want to ban Menthol then I say you don’t need Alcohol ban all Alcohol
Right. Some Politicians lining their pockets