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 ...

City Council in December banned the sale of most flavored tobacco and nicotine products, from flavored vapes to menthol ...

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 ...

Menthol and tobacco addiction endangers the health and shortens the lives of people of color. Here in Central Ohio, roughly 80 churches, mosques and other faith institutions are coming together for ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Internal tobacco industry data estimates the illicit tobacco market now makes up 64 per cent of all tobacco consumed in Australia and 82 per cent of the total nicotine consumed.

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 ...