In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden celebrated his reignition of the "cancer moonshot," intending to slash cancer deaths by 50 percent over the next 25 years. A key plank in this ambitious agenda is tackling the country's leading preventable cause of cancer, smoking.
To this end, the Biden administration will be "preparing further action to help people avoid smoking in the first place and support Americans who want to quit." These are likely references to the Food and Drug Administration's plan to ban menthol cigarettes and remove almost all of the nicotine in the cigarettes left on the market. It's unclear when either of these prohibitions will be implemented.
