For Mom Wendy, it began at age 12, when her mom asked her to light a ... all older Black boys, who smoked. They would joke that smoking “Winstons” (cigarettes without menthol) was for white ...

An estimated 1.5 million Black people began smoking menthol cigarettes and 157,000 Black people died prematurely because of menthol cigarettes between 1980 and 2018, according to the Centers for ...

As national discussions about racial discrepancies in menthol cigarette ... under the age of 21, after which “the industry began to pivot aggressively towards targeted marketing in Black ...

Not only was the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company using the theater’s name to target menthol cigarettes to Black customers, but it was also planning a six-month test run in Philadelphia for its new ...

Another ad features, yes, another young Black couple smiling and laughing – this time at a coffee shop. Menthol cigarettes ... out free loose cigarettes to people under 21.

They worry more Black people will be punished for selling cigarettes under a ban. The Rev. Al Sharpton said in a letter to Susan Rice, the White House domestic policy adviser, that a menthol ...

The annual campaign addresses the detrimental impact that smoking tobacco has on Black communities, and the history of targeted advertising of menthol-flavored cigarettes ... They’re doing this under ...

By Sheila Kaplan The banning of menthol cigarettes, the mint-flavored products that have been aggressively marketed to Black Americans ... And the F.D.A. is under a court order to respond to ...

Years ago, there was a successful push to ban the billboard advertisements of menthol cigarettes in the Black community. CNN reported that “under a $206 billion settlement reached in November ...

It was menthol ... cigarettes to those under age 21. Federal regulators banned marketing to the youth in 1964, but, according to the NAACP, Big Tobacco still uses “egregious” tactics to hook ...

Mr. Santos is, after all, only one of three members of the current Congress who have been under federal ... Biden’s government, menthol cigarettes are smoked by 83% of Black smokers, while ...