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[A] history of the evolution of targeted tobacco marketing and how the industry strategically created a demand and then peddled their product to Black America." Salon "Tracking the evolution of a centurys worth of targeted marketing, this history documents the sinister engineering of a Black consumer preference for menthol cigarettes

But there's no equivalent generational ban at the federal level, and coverage varies significantly by state

Contrast this with the battle to ban menthol cigarettes for over a decade by numerous advocacy groups and organizations, including the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council and the National African American Tobacco Prevention Network, to protect their communities, but had no meaningful action taken