By Dr. Phillip Gardiner It’s hard to believe that with the amount of damage that the tobacco industry has inflicted on the Black community, that there...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Our experiences inform us that the implementation of a menthol ban will inevitably and undoubtedly create an increased number of stops, frisks, and...
FLORIDA COURIER — Should Meharry Medical College, a Historically Black College (HBCU) established in 1876 in Nashville, have accepted $7.5 million from Juul Labs, the controversial e-cigarette...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “…there is this misguided group of Afrodescendants, who are throwing shade at those who are not ‘American descendants of slaves’ ADOS. Their shade...
MILWAUKEE COURIER — When it comes to tobacco, most people know at least one person in his or her life who smokes.
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Research shows that African Americans and residents in low income communities are one of the main target groups of menthol cigarette advertising.
NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — Nearly all early Africans brought to French Louisiana came from Senegambia.
(USA Today) – The decision to stop tobacco sales at all of its drugstores a year ago caused people to buy 95 million fewer packs of cigarettes in...
TERESA CEROJANO, Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Taxing cigarettes up to 75 percent of their retail price is among the most effective ways to reduce...
(Time) – A San Francisco city ordinance could make the Giants the first team in Major League Baseball to ban chewing tobacco on the field. City supervisors voted...
MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s largest tobacco companies are suing the Food and Drug Administration over recent guidelines that they claim...
(Reuters) – The tobacco industry makes $7,000 for each of the more than 6 million people who die each year from smoking-related illness, the health...
(Capital OTC) – Tobacco sales should be drastically downsized by 2040 under strict recommendations from several public health researchers. They believe that a tobacco-free world...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The first peek at a major study of how Americans smoke suggests many use combinations of products, and...
MICHAEL FELBERBAUM, AP Tobacco Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s biggest tobacco companies asked a federal appeals court Monday to set aside a series of court-ordered advertisements...
(CNBC) – This past year was all about the “vape.” But the trend in which smokers inhale vapor from tobacco, marijuana and other nontobacco-based liquids...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tobacco companies on Wednesday accused a federal judge of forcing them to inaccurately describe themselves as unscrupulous villains who continue to deceive...
BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Tripp Foy’s sing-song chant rang out like a sentimental oldie for die-hard farmers clinging to the old way...
WESTMINSTER, Mass. (AP) — A proposal that would have made the town the first in the nation to ban all tobacco sales has gone up...
TOM MURPHY, AP Business Writer As CVS sharpens its focus on customer health, the nation’s second-largest drugstore chain will tweak its corporate name and stop the...
(CBS News) – Just how dangerous is farm work for children? A new report by Human Rights Watch is drawing attention to the fact that children as young...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An international rights group is pushing the federal government and the tobacco industry to take further steps to protect children working...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A revised plan for major tobacco companies to purchase court-ordered ads to admit that they deliberately...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department and the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund have reached an agreement with the four major...
