By issuing proposed rules today to prohibit menthol cigarettes and all flavored cigars, the FDA is taking historic and long-overdue action to protect our nations kids, advance health equity and save lives, especially among Black Americans and other populations that have been targeted by the tobacco industry and suffered enormous harm from the predatory marketing of these products
There's a reason their production is restricted to a handful of companies worldwide
The BPRF represents the smallest harmful (or protective) effect of smoking on the corresponding outcome at each level of exposure that is consistent with the available evidence
In my research Ive been unable to verify that the cancer was tobacco-induced
The rest of the story is about how theyre made, how theyre used, what they mean in the culture, and why so many people sense such a gulf between them even as public-health agencies warn that neither is harmless
and around the world and continuing to introduce new cigarette and cigar products as well (especially in low- and middle-income countries)
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