Is the US banning all menthol cigarettes?
The news said that after the FDA regulation they are banning "flavored" cigarettes because of children. They said that "cloved cigarettes are now banned. What exactly are they going to ban though? All menthols? Are they going to band all rolling papers that are flavored?
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I just read an article on this. It specifically said that menthol cigarettes will not be banned.
However, given the broad powers to regulate tobacco that this new law grants the FDA, they probably could in the future.
Basically, the only check on the FDA's power that this law provides is that it explicitly prohibits them from banning cigarettes or nicotine outright.
Pretty much everything else is fair game - they can ban flavored cigarettes (which they already have), they can ban the use of marketing terms like "light" or "low-tar" (apparently there's some concern that these terms give the impression that those cigarettes are safer than others, which they aren't), and they can regulate the ingredients that go into cigarettes, including the amount of nicotine (though they can't ban nicotine outright).
So the FDA is trying to figure out if they should ban the making and selling of menthol cigarettes in the US. Here is a link to the article in the ...
