{
  "id": 2184768,
  "title": "Tobacco companies helped flood the federal comment process that stalled menthol cigarette ban",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/tobacco-companies-helped-flood-the-federal-comment-process-that",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-20T15:00:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-tobacco-companies-federal-comment-stalled.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed banning menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars in 2022, nearly 250,000 public comments flooded in—a record response that led the Biden administration to delay a final decision.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}