The Tobacco Reference Guide by David Moyer

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by David Moyer, MD.

Chapter 25 African Americans And Smoking

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Black Americans have higher rates of morbidity and mortality from smoking-related

diseases than do other races. It is possible that the anesthetic effects of the menthol

cigarettes used by 76% of this group facilitate deeper and longer inhalation of smoke,

thus increasing exposure and toxicity.

Nicotine Addiction, pp. 341 and 356, and American Journal of Public Health,

October 1989, p. 1416

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Cigarette smoking accounts for 40% of all deaths among adult black men, as well as

30% of all deaths of persons over age 20, in the District of Columbia, and is a major

contributing cause for the black-white disparity in health status. A brown cigarette

called "More" is targeted to black women, so that "more" black women smoke "More"

cigarettes, and "more" black women get cancer, and of course, the tobacco industry

makes "more" money.

Journal of the National Medical Association, November 1989, pp. 1119-1121 (Reed

Tuckson, M.D.)

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"By deciding to conceal and deny the deadly consequences and addictive nature of

smoking (in the 1960's), tobacco companies bought time to scrounge for new

markets. They chose two targets, women and minorities."

Joe Califano, Washington Post National Weekly Edition, June 6, 1994, p. 28

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During the 1970's, about 70% of black smokers were smoking Kool menthol

cigarettes. By the 1990's Newport, also a menthol brand, had become the most

popular.

Tobacco Control, Winter 1993, p. 512

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