How to Get 4.5 Million Americans to Quit Smoking

How to Get 4.5 Million Americans to Quit Smoking

You wouldn’t think it would be easy to get nearly 4.5 million Americans—the equivalent of the entire state of Louisiana or Kentucky—to give up smoking. But it can be done in a single, straightforward step: prohibiting the sale of menthol cigarettes. That’s the conclusion of a new study in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research. The study is one more piece of evidence in favor of a nationwide menthol ban, the authors say. The U.S. Food and Drug …