In April 2022, FDA issued proposed product standards banning menthol flavoring in cigarettes and cigars; however, the benefits of these product standards could be weakened by the role of substitute products still available in the market.
The Trump administration did exactly what it said it would do to disorient anyone involved in making policy or touched by it. The president and his crew have “flooded the zone”—the term and the image are theirs, as is the strategy of dropping a flurry of executive orders and memoranda that shake the foundations of the American system of government, raising questions of legality and constitutionality, and, above all, making it a challenge for anyone to see the entire picture and think strategically.
