Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said the proposed menthol ban "would help prevent children from becoming the next generation of smokers and help adult smokers quit." "Additionally, the proposed rules represent an important step to advance health equity by significantly reducing tobacco-related health disparities," Becerra said in a statement when the proposal was announced
Potential deaths averted in USA by replacing cigarettes with E-cigarettes
"When you have serious violent offenders that are locked up, that keeps them off the streets and keeps them from doing this to our family members, our loved ones, our neighbors, people that we care about or people that we may not even know," he said
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Just one cigarette a day carries nearly half the risk for heart attack and stroke as smoking a full pack of 20, according to a large-scale study published Thursday
