ArticleAmerican journal of public health2014
The debate on regulating menthol cigarettes: closing a dangerous loophole vs freedom of choice.
Article in American journal of public health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Can States Continue to Set the Agenda for Tobacco 21? Insights From US News Coverage Between 2012 and 2020.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022Pooled it
- News coverage of the proposed menthol cigarette ban in the United States (2022-2024): a content analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Article
- California's prohibition of flavoured tobacco sales and the tobacco industry's attempts to evade it.Tobacco control · 2026Article
- Tobacco control policies discussed on social media: a scoping review.Tobacco control · 2026Article
- Conversations with African Americans Regarding a Ban on the Sale of Menthol Cigarettes.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- An Analysis of Twitter Posts About the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Menthol Ban.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023Article
- Use of Menthol Cigarettes, Smoking Frequency, and Nicotine Dependence Among US Youth.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Reframing the banning of flavored tobacco in unprecedented times- an example from California's Senate bill 793.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- Tobacco industry and public health responses to state and local efforts to end tobacco sales from 1969-2020.PloS one · 2020Article
- Disparities in retail marketing for menthol cigarettes in the United States, 2015.Health & place · 2018Article
- Menthol cigarette smoking among individuals in treatment for substance use disorders.Addictive behaviors · 2018Article
- The tobacco endgame: a qualitative review and synthesis.Tobacco control · 2016Review
- Why We Must Continue to Investigate Menthol's Role in the African American Smoking Paradox.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2016Review
- News Media Framing of New York City's Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Portion-Size Cap.American journal of public health · 2015Article
- "We're Part of the Solution": Evolution of the Food and Beverage Industry's Framing of Obesity Concerns Between 2000 and 2012.American journal of public health · 2015Article
- Tobacco industry use of personal responsibility rhetoric in public relations and litigation: disguising freedom to blame as freedom of choice.American journal of public health · 2015Article
- Menthol smokers in large-scale nicotine replacement therapy program.American journal of public health · 2014Article
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Abstract
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act exempted menthol from a flavoring additive ban, tasking the Tobacco Products Safety Advisory Committee to advise on the scientific evidence on menthol. To inform future tobacco control efforts, we examined the public debate from 2008 to 2011 over the exemption. Health advocates regularly warned of menthol's public health damages, but inconsistently invoked the health disparities borne by African American smokers. Tobacco industry spokespeople insisted that making menthol available put them on the side of African Americans' struggle for justice and enlisted civil rights groups to help them make that case. In future debates, public health must prioritize and invest in the leadership of communities most affected by health harms to ensure a strong, unrelenting voice in support of health equity.
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