Only about six percent of tobacco smokers in a given year are able to quit successfully, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
But there are many benefits to stopping smoking, from improving your physical and mental health to saving money
In 2020, Massachusetts became the to ban all flavored tobacco products
Men who smoked 20 cigs a daygenerally a packhad more than double the chances of heart disease than nonsmokers
And then, maybe like three months later, after that one ethnic field trip, there'd be an ad targeted specifically to that population." Phillip Gardiner, public health activist and co-chair of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council, wrote in his 2002 study "The African Americanization of menthol cigarette use in the United States" -- which Mondy refers to often in his research -- that tobacco companies saw the distinct traits of the black community, philanthropy included, and adjusted their marketing accordingly to build the community's trust: "Because the industry was based in the South, and the majority of black people lived and worked in the South, even as many migrated to urban centers, it was to the advantage of the tobacco industry to develop a strategic relationship with the African-American community
