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 ...

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.

After more than 17 years of legal battles and public health advocacy, the U.S. tobacco industry will soon be free from a rare form of accountability: the court-mandated requirement to publicly admit ...

For many African-Americans, smoking menthol cigarettes has become an emblem of Black inner-city culture. Indeed, for Black men especially – far more than Black women, whose ...

In cigarette markets, consumers tend to shop across borders where the tax rates are lower and dealers develop black and gray markets to sell illegally to consumers, paying little or no tax at all." ...

By Jennifer Porter Gore Word in Black. Cigarette smoking has plunged more than 70 percent among Americans since a landmark 1965 surgeon general’s report linked tobacco use to cancer.