Menthol cigarette ban delayed due to "immense" feedback, Biden administration says
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The Biden administration said Friday it would again delay a decision on a regulation aiming to ban menthol-flavored cigarettes, citing the "historic attention" and "immense amount of feedback" on the controversial proposal by the Food and Drug Administration.
"This rule has garnered historic attention and the public comment period has yielded an immense amount of feedback, including from various elements of the civil rights and criminal justice movement," Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement.
The White House had already overshot a previous self-imposed date to decide on the regulation by March. The rule had been stalled in an interagency review process.
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