The White House has missed its deadline to publish a rule banning menthol cigarettes, raising ire among public health advocates that the policy will be indefinitely delayed by election year politics.

Menthol cigarette bans are effective at getting people to quit smoking, new research finds. The US Food and Drug Administration has said that a menthol ban is a “top priority,” but public health ...

The long-awaited ban on menthol cigarettes may not be announced by the end of the year, but pushed to 2024, according to officials from two national public health groups working to remove the products ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients undergoing colonoscopy, L-menthol sprayed directly onto the colonic mucosa improves the adenoma detection rate, according to a study presented at the annual Digestive ...

BASF has started constructing what it says will be the world’s largest plant for the aroma chemical L-menthol. Slated for Ludwigshafen, Germany, the plant is expected to open in 2012 and create 35 ...

The Biden administration announced its intention Thursday to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, including menthol. "Banning menthol—the last allowable flavor—in cigarettes and banning all ...

Opposition from prominent Black and civil rights groups is threatening to permanently derail Biden administration efforts to ban menthol cigarettes. The ban has also pitted organizations that are ...

Lincoln Mondy grew up in a mixed race family in Texas, where his white mother's family used regular tobacco, unlike his Black father. "My dad exclusively smokes menthol cigarettes," he says. "Menthol ...

Activists and health advocates are pressing the Biden administration to ban menthol cigarettes ahead of an FDA deadline. Black community leaders and public health advocates marched toward the White ...

Colonic peristalsis during colonoscopy can conceal neoplastic lesions, and antispasmodic agents can cause adverse reactions. Inoue et al. report the benefits of applying the antiperistaltic compound L ...