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This page used to rank menthol cigarettes by strength, review their flavors, and include a paragraph of advice for new smokers on which menthol to start with. There is no version of this blog where that last sentence survives, and the rest went with it. What’s left is the honest answer to the question you searched.
What menthol actually does in a cigarette
Menthol is a compound from mint plants, also made synthetically, and its job in a cigarette is anesthetic: it cools, masks the harshness of smoke, and suppresses the cough reflex. Notice that none of that is a flavor story. It’s the mechanism that makes smoke easier to inhale, which is precisely why public-health agencies treat menthol as an initiation aid rather than a taste option, and why the research record shows menthol products concentrated among the youngest smokers and among communities the tobacco industry marketed them to for decades.
That’s also why menthol is the last characterizing flavor standing in US cigarettes, and barely: the 2009 flavor ban exempted it, the FDA has proposed ending the exemption, and a growing list of states and cities, including much of California, already ban menthol cigarette sales outright.
So which has the most?
Not a ranking we publish. Menthol loading varies by product and studies have measured it, but a most-menthol chart is a guide to the products engineered to go down easiest, which is the single property regulators are trying to remove from the market. Anyone ranking menthols for you is selling something.
If you’re trying to identify what a specific brand sells, the type guides list every pack under the manufacturer’s own names with a plain menthol yes/no: Newport, Kool, and the mentholated entries in the other brand guides. What each pack is, and nothing about how it goes down.
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What’s available depends on your address. Enter it and we’ll show you what’s in stock nearby. Tobacco and alcohol are 21 and up. ID at the door, every time, no exceptions and no negotiating with the driver.
Menthol cigarettes are banned or restricted in a growing list of states and cities, including much of California. Whether you can get them at all depends on your address, and that list keeps moving.
