Research suggests that blacks and other minorities have a harder time
quitting menthol cigarettes than white smokers.
Not exact matches
In July the FDA said it was «likely» that
menthol cigarettes posed a greater health risk than normal
cigarettes, because they encourage young people to take up smoking, make it more difficult to
quit and increase addiction.
Several studies have found that
quitting is very difficult regardless of what kind of
cigarette a person smokes, and researchers haven't been able to confirm that
menthols have a different effect on the nervous system than non-menthol
cigarettes.
Experts say that
menthol cigarettes» minty flavor makes them more appealing to young people, more addictive, and harder to
quit than regular
cigarettes.