Uptown cigarettes, a mentholated brand geared directly to Black consumers – would’ve been tested in Philadelphia, but grassroots opposition and resistance from then-Health and Human Services ...

As national discussions about racial discrepancies in menthol cigarette use have been reignited by the Federal Drug Administration’s recently proposed […] The post Menthol cigarette companies ...

Menthol cigarettes are more addictive and 85 percent of Black smokers smoke menthol. The FDA will decide later this month whether to ban them.

Banning menthol cigarettes will save Black lives. Research shows the FDA’s rule will save up to 650,000 lives in 40 years, with more than a third of them being African Americans.

Sales of taxed cigarettes have plummeted 27 percent since July, when state lawmakers raised the excise tax to $4.35 a pack on top of the city’s tax of $1.50, making the average price of ...

As Black leaders in the South Bay, we urge the White House to approve the Food and Drug Administration’s plan to prohibit menthol cigarettes nationwide or risk losing more Black lives.

In the 1950s, less than 10% of Black people who smoked used menthol cigarettes, according to research commissioned by Philip Morris, but surveys at the time demonstrated that Black Americans had ...

Black smokers, targeted in decades of aggressive marketing, consume menthol cigarettes at significantly higher rates than white smokers. Credit ...

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 ...

Eventually, though, cigarette makers realized something: Because they didn’t target African Americans, Black people weren’t smoking cigarettes. Advertisement So that all changed.

Fretting political backlash from Black voters in November, President Joe Biden has indefinitely delayed the Food and Drug Administration’s recommended ban on menthol-flavored cigarettes.Biden ...