Menthol cigarettes represent nearly 40% of all cigarettes purchased and consumed by Americans. When menthol tobacco products were emerging in 1933, however, the brand Kool represented only 2% of the ...

The packaging on Kool brand's "non-menthol" cigarettes and its existing menthols are very similar. Anti-smoking activists argue this is a way to get around any ban on menthol cigarettes by appealing ...

Left: A Kool cigarettes advertisement targeting Black communities for a sponsored event, the Kool Jazz Festival; Right: A Kent cigarettes ad targeting Black smokers. Lincoln Mondy grew up in a mixed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man lighting a menthol cigarette. Elijah Kinlaw, 24, smokes after his shift at a local roofing company in Central Florida. He ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Joe Biden’s administration in December pressed the brakes on a plan to ban menthol cigarettes. They are popular with ...

Lincoln Mondy grew up in a mixed race family in Texas, where his white mother's family used regular tobacco, unlike his Black father. "My dad exclusively smokes menthol cigarettes," he says. "Menthol ...