There's a very thick pall of smoke which smells kind of like a mixture of menthol and charcoal because there are quite a few eucalyptus trees in the forest.
The stock bolted higher in mid-March, after the findings of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review panel led many analysts to conclude that amenthol ban was relatively unlikely.
At that time we proposed that menthol merited study as a possible factor contributing to the dramatically higher rates of smoking-related cancers among African Americans.
However, because there is such a strong contrast in the preference for menthol by race and sex and because there are large differences in the rates of these cancers also by race and sex, we felt that this was a case in which an ecologic approach could be informative.
Since then, a number of studies have addressed this question and have consistently failed to show that menthol has any effect beyond that of smoking per se.