{"id":34579,"date":"2021-04-28T18:06:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T01:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34579"},"modified":"2021-04-28T18:06:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T01:06:21","slug":"proposed-ban-on-menthol-cigarettes-expected-to-be-announced-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34579","title":{"rendered":"Proposed ban on menthol cigarettes expected to be announced this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is expected to announce a proposed ban on menthol-flavored cigarettes this week, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>The action has long been sought by public health advocacy groups, and the administration is facing a Thursday deadline to respond to a lawsuit demanding that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) take action on a 2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ylmcypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtssgbbvl_iycymmvhvwydycdbnbgm.html?a=&amp;b=38732\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ylmcypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtssgbbvl_iycymmvhvwydycdbnbgm.html?a%3D%26b%3D38732&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1619734933265000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH0tACi-8hk7CMUz6nHaZgMp4aW4Q\">citizen petition<\/a>\u00a0seeking a menthol cigarette ban. An announcement is expected tomorrow, but could also be previewed by President Biden tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The White House directed questions to the FDA, which declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA&#8217;s decision would not immediately ban menthol flavors, but would instead launch a rulemaking process that would likely take years. Any final decision would also likely be challenged in court by the tobacco industry<\/p>\n<p>Anti-smoking and civil rights groups have long argued Black Americans have been disproportionately harmed by menthol cigarettes, as the tobacco industry deliberately targeted Black communities for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is expected to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34580,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34579\/revisions\/34580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}