Op-Ed:African-Americans should resist targeted tobacco marketing
Story Date: 2/2/2017

 

Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 2/1/17

Did you know that tobacco kills more African-Americans than AIDS, car crashes, murders, drugs, and alcohol combined? That’s right, COMBINED. Every year, 45,000 African-Americans die of smoking-related illnesses. African-Americans are more likely to die from smoking than whites, even though they smoke fewer cigarettes and make more quit attempts.
African-Americans smoke less and die more.

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