Minorities & Smoking Home Taking Notice The Power of Tobacco Marketing A History of Marketing Menthol to Minorities Supporting and Suppressing Minority Communities Targeting Latinos Targeting Minority Women: A Marginalized Market Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act The DOC Response Recent Struggles A History of Marketing Menthol to Minorities The first mentholated brand, Spud, debuted in the 1920s, marketed by the Axton-Fisher Tobacco Company
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This indicates that the common price per cigarette is around $3 to $6
The decades of well-documented racialized and predatory tobacco industry targeting of African Americans, specifically with menthol flavoring, is a human rights issue and has resulted in nearly 9 in 10 (88.5%) African Americans who smoke using menthol cigarettes
This makes them an excellent alternative as they are 100% legal, will not cause intoxication, and still provide the smoke in the lungs feeling that many smokers miss when quitting traditional cigarettes
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