Menthol cigarettes will be banned. They were aimed heavily at Black smokers The Food and Drug Administration has announced plans to ban menthol cigarettes, which the tobacco industry has ...

The tobacco companies have raised concerns in the Black community that a ban might prompt police to crack down on illicit cigarette sales, she said: “They've been able to craft an argument that ...

With menthol cigarettes, Big Tobacco targets Black lives. Don't allow profiting from death. Even as kids we knew the truth: Black people smoked menthols, white people didn't.

Some black market cigarettes, priced at as little as £3, have been found to contain human excrement, dead flies and asbestos.

Menthol cigarettes are a major reason why tobacco use remains the No. 1 cause of preventable death among Black Americans, claiming 45,000 Black lives every year.

Menthol cigarettes and the tobacco industry are — quite literally — robbing our communities of life. The impact on Black health has been enormous. Today, 85% of Black smokers use menthol ...

Delayed menthol cigarette ban spurs debate over impact on Black Americans : Shots - Health News Black smokers make up menthol tobacco's largest market, and have the highest rates of lung cancer ...

Yet, new shrewd and deceitful practices allowed menthol cigarettes to flourish. Big Tobacco’s strategy of supporting civic causes, organizations, cultural events and politicians in the Black ...

In 1974, before the introduction of lights, Black-menthol smokers, to a greater degree than their White counterparts, believed menthol cigarettes were less hazardous/irritating than other cigarettes.

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 ...

The 2020 National Youth Tobacco Survey, conducted by the federal government, found that 6.5 percent of Black students in high school and middle school, smoked cigars and cigarillos compared with 2 ...