If you search google, you'll find that menthol is naturally derived from the Mint family of plants. Menthol isn't really a flavor., tho. It doesn't taste like the mint family of plants that contain it, it's merely the part that provides the cooling sensation. I'm sure that in high concentration you may actually get a flavor which would probably not be great lol, but in normal concentrations it's just a feeling.
Like Coolada and Koolada. They have no real "flavor" but they provide that cooling menthol sensation to your
juice. I don't know if either of those actually use menthol. I have a bottle of Coolada and all the label lists for ingredients is "Propylene glycol USP and flavoring substances"
As for methol cigs, they ain't going anywhere, like the last 500 times this ban was supposed to happen. If it does happen on the 501st time, my link above shows (as well as other sources) that big
tobacco is already fixing to use synthetic menthol to skirt the ban, which would likely take another 501 attempts to get that banned. lol
As for a general menthol ban, I found nowhere in google that mentioned anything about menthol being banned in general so I'm not sure where that come from.