FDA To Advance Rules To Ban Menthol Cigarettes, Flavored Cigars

In a slate of tobacco-related policy proposals issued Thursday (Nov. 15), FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the agency will move forward with a proposed ban on menthol in combustible tobacco products, including cigars and cigarettes, as well as a ban on all flavored cigars. As part of a larger policy framework announced Thursday, Gottlieb has tasked the Center for Tobacco Products with revisiting the deeming rule compliance policy for flavored electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), with the exception of mint-,...