Left: A Kool cigarettes advertisement targeting Black communities for a sponsored event, the Kool Jazz Festival; Right: A Kent cigarettes ad targeting Black smokers. Lincoln Mondy grew up in a mixed ...

In an attempt to stop a new cigarette promotional campaign that features brightly colored, hip-hop themed packaging, merchandise giveaways and DJ contests, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan plans ...

The company was accused of marketing its products to teenagers, causing a surge in use. By Christina Jewett The elimination of a key C.D.C. office has slashed funding to states for help lines used by ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Starting Monday, flavored tobacco products will no longer be available for sale at stores in Evanston. Last year, the Evanston passed a ban on the sale of all flavored tobacco products ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. has scaled back a marketing campaign featuring hip-hop characters that critics said was aimed at black youths and violated a legal settlement ...

EVANSTON, Ill. (CBS) -- The City of Evanston will soon be banning sales of all flavored tobacco products. The ban will take effect April 1. The city called it a "critical step in safeguarding the ...

Black smokers make up menthol tobacco's largest market, and have the highest rates of lung cancer. But the fight over banning menthol is a complex... The fight over banning menthol cigarettes has a ...

Black smokers make up menthol tobacco's largest market, and have the highest rates of lung cancer. But the fight over banning menthol is a complex and divisive issue in the Black community. Lincoln ...

Lincoln Mondy grew up in a mixed race family in Texas, where his white mother's family used regular tobacco, unlike his Black father. "My dad exclusively smokes menthol cigarettes," he says. "Menthol ...