FDA Wrong About Menthol Cigarettes, Group Says

Another reason not to trust the experts in weight loss and fitness - the experts get it wrong and/or the data conflict.

In the matter of weight loss, they get it wrong. It is all about the Calories.

Nothing else. The rest are lies.

Menthol cigarettes are no harder to quit than nonmenthol cigarettes, and they may actually be less likely to cause lung cancer, according to a new study.

The findings stand in sharp contrast to the FDA advisory committee report released last week that called menthol cigarettes a public health threat.

The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, found that menthol cigarettes are no more harmful to the health of smokers than regular cigarettes and comes as the FDA is mulling what to do about menthol cigarettes. The 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act barred tobacco manufacturers from adding candy-like flavors to their products -- such as cloves and vanilla -- but the law left a determination on menthol to the FDA.

"These findings should inform any decision-making process by the Food and Drug Administration to single out menthol cigarettes as uniquely more harmful than nonmenthol cigarettes," wrote the authors of the new study, led by William Blot, PhD, of the International Epidemiology Institute in Rockville, MD.

Still think they have any idea what they are talking about?