black menthol cigarettes Marlboro 100's Big Tobacco has targeted Black

Menthol flavored cigarette brands sponsored local events in the black community, and subsidized major black organizations including the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in addition to many churches and schools

The campaigns were largely successful: between 1980 and 2018, 1.5 million Black Americans began smoking menthols, and 157,000 Black Americans died prematurely from smoking-related deaths

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