BLACKSBURG, Va., March 11 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Cigarette smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, accounting for nearly 30 percent of all cancer deaths. Of the more than 28 million American adults who smoke daily, 35 percent use menthol-flavoredcigarettes.
Prohibiting the sale ofmenthol-flavoredcigarettesmayseem like a majorsteptoward reducingthe impacts of tobacco smoking, but outrightretailbans offlavored tobaccoinplaces likeCalifornia and Massachusettshaveled to aproblematic workaround.
"There's been a big emergence of theseafter-marketproducts that let you add menthol flavor to a non-menthol cigarette," said Carol Bovo, a postdoc...