EditorialR.J. Renolds’s new, non-menthol Newport cigarettes are displayed for sale at a store in San Francisco’s Mission District on Jan. 7, 2023. (Aaron Wojack/The New York Times)
EditorialA man exhales after vaping, which the government has slowly embraced as a less addictive alternative to cigarettes, in New York, Sept. 9, 2019. (Brittainy Newman/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Phjil Gardiner, a leader of the movement to ban menthol cigarettes, sits for a portrait in Oakland, Calif., on March, 11, 2021. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)