In June 2020, the City of Columbus declared racism a public health crisis, and outlined several policy goals within the resolution, including ending the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored tobacco ...

In 2009, Congress enacted legislation authorizing the U.S. Federal Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco and ...

In 2022, Earl Fowlkes, a Black gay activist, denounced tobacco companies for marketing e-cigarettes to his community as the latest way to hook people on nicotine. A year later he declared that vaping ...

Tahjma Hall has been surrounded by menthol cigarettes since birth. “I’ve been told that my mom would get a glass of milk and cigarette, then sit down and breast feed me,” Tahjma says. “Everyone smoked ...

Authorities stress the $4 billion figure is conservative, as it does not include illegal vapes and e-cigarettes.

Phillip Gardiner is co-chair of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council. This Black History Month, I have a simple message for nonprofit organizations in the United States: If you have ...

When Don Williams was 14 years old, he was given his first menthol cigarette. The gesture, unfortunately, was a rite of passage for the Maysville, Kentucky native. "It was always around," Williams, ...

“We have seen delay on voting rights, delay on living wages, and now a delay of a moral rule to regulate menthol,” said the Rev. William Barber of the Poor People's Campaign. Civil rights leaders and ...

Public health experts are urging authorities not to get the jitters on tobacco taxes as the economic cost of Australia's ...

These dual crises – racism and tobacco use – are inextricably intertwined, and recognizing tobacco’s devastating impact on Black lives is indisputable. In fact, tobacco use claims the lives of 45,000 ...