The Washington Examiner reports the FDA “is in a dilemma of having to address the White House’s ban on menthol cigarettes in the wake of lawsuits following a deadline on flavored electronic cigarettes.” The agency “has failed to follow through with the ban on menthol cigarettes pushed through by President Joe Biden’s administration.” Although the agency “is currently working on the ban, the administration has a deadline of April 2022 by which to enforce the menthol regulations, tangling the timelines for the flavored, electronic, and menthol tobacco bans.” An FDA spokesperson said, “Our commitment to ban menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and ban all characterizing flavors (including menthol) in cigars is at the top of this Administration’s tobacco regulatory priorities.”

From the news release of the American Association for Justice.