Anvisa, Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency, last week decided to ban additives in cigarettes, reports Global Post citing R7 Noticias.

The sale of flavoured cigarettes, such as menthol, honey or chocolate, will be banned because the additives used for these flavours are what lures many young people to start the habit in the first place, says the agency.
Sugar alone can still be added to Brazilian-made cigarettes and those imported into the country, yet flavoured cigarettes can still be exported out of Brazil to be sold elsewhere.
Cigarette-makers will have 18 months once Anvisa's decision is officially published to pull their flavoured cigarettes from the national market, and 24 months to take other flavoured tobacco products off the shelves. (pi)