Tahjma Hall has been surrounded by menthol cigarettes since birth. “I’ve been told that my mom would get a glass of milk and cigarette, then sit down and breast feed me,” Tahjma says. “Everyone smoked ...

As executive director for the Center for Black Health & Equity, I’ve witnessed the devastating health impacts of the tobacco industry’s predatory marketing of menthol cigarettes on the Black community ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “We have seen delay on voting rights, delay on living wages, and now a delay of a moral rule to regulate menthol,” said the Rev.

Six years after his seminal short film Black Lives/Black Lungs documented the decades-long campaign transforming menthol into a Black cigarette, filmmaker and former Truth Initiative fellow Lincoln ...

President Joe Biden’s administration in December pressed the brakes on a plan to ban menthol cigarettes. They are popular with Black smokers but have been found by federal health officials to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the Biden administration quietly let its deadline to approve a ban on menthol cigarettes pass earlier this year, advocates ...

The Biden Administration is holding up important action on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars that is long overdue. As Black leaders in the South Bay, we urge the White House to approve the Food ...

Black market cigarettes are being brazenly sold at heavily discounted prices in Auckland, undermining one of the biggest ...

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 ...

Black-market cigarettes are costing many states hundreds of millions of dollars a year in lost tax revenue. And the lucrative, illicit trade is attracting violent criminal gangs that can be lethally ...