For whatever reason, Ebony magazine and Jet magazine, which were the two leading publications aimed at African Americans, never ran a single non-menthol cigarette advertisement. Americus Reed, a professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School of Business whose research focuses on brands and identity loyalty, said that all brands attempt to make a cultural connection to a lifestyle that could be focused on a particular type of community, or even a racial group One way they might do that is to tell a story, Reed said
"The predatory marketing of menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products must be stopped and we should all recognize this as a social justice issue, and one that disproportionately impacts youth and communities of color," reads a letter signed by groups including the NAACP and the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council
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The Food and Drug Administration has said it will require tobacco companies to reduce the nicotine in all cigarettes sold in the United States to minimal or nonaddictive levels
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