Sheila Powe of Detroit talks about the nationwide ban of menthol cigarettes aimed at protecting African Americans outside of Big V Party Store on Greenfield Road in Detroit on April 30, 2021. Sheila ...

Half a century ago, faced with broadcast advertising bans stemming from overwhelming evidence of the harms of smoking, the tobacco industry used menthol cigarettes to secure new markets among Black ...

Gedwyn Power smokes a menthol cigarette in front of a Quick Stop store on March 30, 2010, in Miami. (Photo: Joe Raedle via Getty Images) I’m in the back of my parents’ red Ford Monarch. The sky is ...

California’s attorney general is warning two tobacco companies that their new cigarettes appear to violate a state ban on most flavored tobacco products that was upheld by voters last year. Attorney ...

Kool cigarettes have undergone more makeovers than the Kardashians. Initially, they used a cartoon penguin named “Willie,” who was a chef, a soldier and a doctor. Then, in the 1960s, they kicked ...

Black smokers make up menthol tobacco's largest market, and have the highest rates of lung cancer. But the fight over banning menthol is a complex and divisive issue in the Black community. Lincoln ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday delayed rules that would ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars in what many see as a nod to the intense lobbying and fragile political environment ...

Like me, Judge Otis D. Wright of the Central District of California remembers KOOL. A once leading menthol cigarette label, KOOL brands and its owner ITG Brands, LLC sued Capna Intellectual claiming ...

Keith Wailoo opens his engrossing new book with a vintage Dave Chapelle sketch, and a line from an imagined quiz show called “I Know Black People.” A contestant just has to answer a question, “Why do ...

The Biden administration’s Food and Drug Administration is reportedly planning to issue new rules this week that would eventually bar the sale of mint and other flavored cigarettes that are often ...