Backers of menthol cigarette ban vow to keep up the fight, but concede it will be a long battle
WASHINGTON — Advocates of a federal ban on menthol cigarettes have spent the better part of the last decade trying everything — from federal lawsuits to holding mock funerals outside the White House — to convince Washington policymakers to remove the minty substance from cigarettes.
Now, it seems, advocates may just have to sit around and wait.
