For some reason, I’m not sure why, menthol cigarettes are favoured by black smokers (interestingly, my parents were big menthol smokers for years and they were decidedly not black)… and Big Tobacco has long marketed menthols to black smokers. In fact, 75 percent of the smokers of the second biggest cigarette brand — Newport cigarettes … Continue reading African-American doctors urge banning menthol cigarettes