Menthol cigarettes: setting the research agenda.

The First Conference on Menthol Cigarettes was convened in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 21–22, 2002. The purpose of the conference was to evaluate the present state of the science concerning the potential increased harm caused by adding menthol to cigarettes, and to set the priorities for further studies of menthol cigarettes. More than 80 researchers and tobacco control experts participated in the conference. This supplement to Nicotine & Tobacco Research provides a summary of the state of our knowledge of the history, sociology, epidemiology, and toxicology of menthol cigarettes as well as the proposed future research agenda.