are they going to quit making menthol cigarettes With a federal ban looming, tobacco companies push 'non-menthol' substitutes The fight over banning menthol

We market these products to clearly indicate that they are non-menthol." But Bostic argues the cooling properties of the new additives known as WS-3 have the same powerful numbing effect as menthol, and to most consumers taste similarly minty

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday issued a long-awaited proposal to ban menthol cigarettes and flavoured cigars, a major victory for anti-smoking advocates but one that could face stiff opposition from Big Tobacco

Janet Woodcock said in a statement

If they hit that earlier deadline, any furor over it would have faded by now, said Eric Lindblom, a senior scholar at the Georgetown University ONeill Institute and former head of the FDAs tobacco policy office from January 2011 to November 2016

CNN What This Means For You The FDA has been sued a second time over delays in enacting a menthol cigarette ban.