Companies use menthol to hook young smokers: study

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 15:49 in Mathematics & Economics

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tobacco companies manipulate the amount of menthol in cigarettes to make those first few puffs more palatable to young smokers, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that could fuel support for more tobacco regulation.

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