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US vows again to ban menthol flavor in cigarettes, cigars

by Matthew Perrone
| April 29, 2021 8:30 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators pledged again Thursday to try to ban menthol cigarettes, this time under pressure from African American groups to remove the mint flavor popular among Black smokers.

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