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.

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    36 months ago

    Huh, cheers. Didn’t notice that last year but then cigarettes are now behind covers at stores so you can only see names and prices these days, so I guess I was only paying attention to the very high prices.