{
  "id": 9737504,
  "title": "How Big Tobacco flooded the FDA with public comments to kill a menthol cigarette ban",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/how-big-tobacco-flooded-the-fda-with-public-comments-to-kill-a",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-25T08:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "STAT News",
    "slug": "stat-news",
    "url": "https://www.statnews.com/2026/09/25/fake-grassroots-campaign-jama-study-rutgers-researchers-fda-menthol-ban/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Virtually all of the 175,000 public comments on a 2022 FDA proposal to ban menthol cigarettes were form letters, most echoing tobacco industry talking points.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "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."
}