They have been marketed as "cool", "smooth" and "refreshing", but were also linked to making smoking more palatable and having a negative impact of communities of color. The U.S. Food and Drug ...

The FDA plans to ban menthol cigarettes in 2022. These mint flavored and highly addictive cigarettes have been specifically marketed to Black Americans since the 1950s, and today, 80% of Black smokers ...

As a cardiologist with the Deborah Heart and Lung Center, and president of the American Heart Association’s New Jersey Board of Directors, I have seen first hand the negative effects of tobacco. Many ...

TACOMA, Wash. — National studies show a vast majority of Black smokers are menthol smokers. How exactly, the minty cigarettes became the choice of thousands of Black smokers nationwide has been an ...

Editor’s Note: CPR News has spent months talking with teenagers, parents, doctors, advocates, political figures. We’ve looked through once-secret internal industry documents released by tobacco ...

Keith Wailoo opens his engrossing new book with a vintage Dave Chapelle sketch, and a line from an imagined quiz show called “I Know Black People.” A contestant just has to answer a question, “Why do ...

Prologue: Pushers in the city of my youth -- Introduction -- The crooked man: influence, exploitation, and menthol's expanding web -- Selling the menthol sensation -- For people susceptible to cancer ...