01/18/2021
MLK Day: The many ways the to***co industry has been targeting the Black community for far too long:
"Black neighborhoods tend to have more to***co retailers, and a 2011 study in California found there were significantly more menthol ads at stores in neighborhoods with a higher proportion of Black residents. A young woman flipping through magazines between 1998 and 2002 would be 10 times more likely to see a menthol ad in Ebony than in People.
These are just a few of the tactics that have created massive disparities among who smokes menthols: 85% of Black smokers use menthol ci******es, compared to 29% of white smokers."
For decades, the to***co industry has been marketing certain products towards Black Americans. Now, it needs to own up to the consequences.
