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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

With nearly 9 in 10 Black smokers currently using menthol cigarettes – including 94.8% of Black teenage smokers aged 12-17 – and with tobacco use as the number one cause of preventable death ...

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." ...

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 ...

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.

Some black market cigarettes have been found to contain dead flies and asbestos. But the trade nods to a wider issue, a BBC ...

West Palm Beach native Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes made history June 27 when she was sworn in as the first African-American ...