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Cigarette smoke, after all, has irritants that can affect anyone who inhales them

Read More When Massachusetts and California took steps to ban menthol cigarettes in 2020 and 2022, respectively, it took just days for new, nonmenthol cigarettes to appear in stores

The lungs are one of the few organs in the body that makes contact with the outside environment, says Edelman

But that isnt good enough, health officials said today

This article orginally appeared in The Washington Post January 29, 2026

We really should be doing everything we can to keep cigarettes out of the hands of children, said David Jacobs, the studys senior author and an epidemiologist at the U of M, in a phone interview with MinnPost