are they going to quit making menthol cigarettes FDA says it will finalize ban on tobacco products 'in coming months' Opinion: Black lives suffer as

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"The FDA cannot and will not enforce against individual consumer possession or use of menthol cigarettes or any tobacco," Zeller said

A full-page advertisement issued in The Washington Post and a joint statement, which highlights the Food and Drug Administrations proposed rules to eliminate menthol, was widely circulated on March 21

Jethroe Moore II is president of the San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP.

It was Yerger's group, the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council, as well as the group Action on Smoking and Health, that sued the FDA when the agency failed to respond to a 2013 citizen petition urging for a ban on menthol cigarettes

use menthol products than in Canada, largely the result of tobacco industry advertisements targeting Black people and young people