Would menthol cigarettes be banned if the typical consumer was young, white and upper-middle class?

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Menthol could be exacerbating deep social inequities according to a paper just published. Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues at CUNY and Rutgers School of Public Health suggest that a ban on menthol cigarettes could have monumental implications for both the short- and long-term physical and mental health of communities of color.