25% of smokers quit within 2 years of menthol bans [Video]

Menthol cigarette bans are effective at getting people to quit smoking, new research finds.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said that a menthol ban is a “top priority,” but public health advocates have accused the Biden administration of dragging its feet, and the ban has gotten caught up in election-year politics despite research showing clear health benefits.The new research, published Wednesday in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research, looked at studies that have examined the effects of bans in more than 170 U.S. localities, two states, several countries and the European Union.The researchers did a deep search of English-language studies on tobacco use that were published through November 2022.The pooled results show that about a quarter of menthol smokers quit within a year or two when the substance is banned from cigarettes.They found that of the menthol smokers who did not quit after bans were put into place, about …