of cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco with characterizing flavors, including mint, but it exempted menthol, thereby handing the FDA a logical absurdityan absurdity that the FDA underlined recently when, in the announcement about its proposed menthol product standards, it described menthol as a flavor additive with a minty taste and aroma. Nevertheless, the menthol exemption wasnt a free pass, and in 2010, the FDAs Tobacco Product Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) was asked to review the scientific evidence concerning menthol, which it did, concluding the next year that a ban on menthol in cigarettes would benefit public health
In addition, the risk of complications goes down as soon as its been a few hours since your last cigarette
48,49 It is likely that specificity of the proposed guideline in the general US population would be much higher than that in the SCCS and would be more similar to the specificity observed in the BWHS
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