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"Banning menthol cigarettes will most assuredly save lives, eliminate great suffering, and reduce health care costs." Valerie Yerger, a professor of health policy at the University of California at San Francisco and a founding member of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council, also praised the FDA's action

A 2011 study predicted that a menthol ban would prevent more than 600,000 deaths by 2050, including the deaths of over 200,000 African Americans

Fiona Sampson, author of In Search of Mary Shelley, says the gothic resonates with young people because of its qualities of overstatement and hyperbole

Pick up your cigarette with your fingers around the filter and the far end of the cigarette