Ban On Menthol, Flavored Tobacco To Take Effect Monday -- WBUR (May 2020) No Menthol Sunday Goes Virtual for 2020 -- Milwaukee Courier (May 2020) Milwaukee retailers take part in 'No Menthol Sunday' -- WTMJ (May 2020) Campaign draws attention to impact of menthol on vaping, African American community -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (May 2020) Sunday May 17, 2020 declared No Menthol Sunday throughout the State of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Courier (May 2020) House approves bill to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes -- Chicago Tribune (Mar 2020) No more menthol cigarettes: New ban on tobacco, vape flavors -- Associated Press (Nov 2019) New York City Council Votes to End the Sale of Flavored E-Cigarettes, Needs to Crack Down on Menthol Cigarettes Next -- Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (Nov 2019) Opinion: As The Vaping Industry Fights The Government, Remember Big Tobaccos Menthol Playbook -- Buzzfeed (Oct 2019) San Francisco approves ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored e-cigarette liquids -- CNBC (June 2018) Minneapolis City Council approves menthol tobacco restriction -- Star Tribune (Aug 2017)
"As a physician who cared for hospitalized cancer patients and as a cancer survivor myself, I saw first-hand the impact of tobacco," said Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration
"Realway"
The key to those efforts, he said, is preventing so-called Big Tobacco from marketing its products to younger, more impressionable residents
However, among adults who never completed high school or who have a GED diploma, almost 1 in 2 are smokers
