A long-overdue ban on menthol cigarettes would save Black lives
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 11, 2024
As former U.S. surgeons general, we call on the Biden administration to immediately finalize Food and Drug Administration rules that will prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.
Over the decades, cigarettes have been responsible for death and disease in millions of Americans. January marked the 60th anniversary of U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry’s landmark Report, “Smoking and Health,” which definitively documented the causal link between smoking . . .
