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Experts say the tobacco industry has used a well-rehearsed strategy for targeting Black communities, including giving out free samples, lower pricing on products, and more advertising in neighborhoods of color.
With over 80 percent of Black smokers in Philadelphia utilizing menthol cigarettes, a statistic that is mirrored across the city’s suburbs, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the country, this policy can have severe ramifications for the city’s already egregious criminal justice problems and disparities.
According to the FDA, a menthol prohibition would be enforced by the U.S. Department of Health, but they have consistently ignored the resulting illegal markets that occur whenever prohibitions such as these are established. These illicit cigarette markets will bring unnecessary police and community interaction as law enforcement attempts to address the criminal behavior that will result. Gangs in the United States have begun selling illegal cigarettes in our city streets.
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