Addicted to menthol: Big Tobacco’s targeting of Black communities could soon end
Debra Lewis, 62, has smoked menthol cigarettes for 40 years and has tried to quit repeatedly. “For far too long, certain populations, including African Americans, have been targeted, and disproportionately impacted by tobacco use,” Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, said in a news release. “I know a lot of people when they got clean they were smoking cigarettes and they would say ‘you ain’t clean if you’re smoking cigarettes,’” Lewis said. “Then a few of them after a while they quit smoking, but the majority that quit smoking they had an illness that made them quit.” The state’s adult cigarette smoking rate has declined dramatically over 30 years, according to a 2019 report from the California Department of Public Health’s Tobacco Control Program. VIDEO | 06:22 LA Times Today: Big Tobacco’s targeting of Black communities could soon end Share Share via Close extra sharing options Email Facebook X LinkedIn Threads Reddit WhatsApp Copy Link URL Copied!
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