government until 1964 to finally declare that cigarettes might be hazardous to a smoker's health, cigarette companies had been messaging consumers for decades with how cool and even how healthy smoking could be
In the 1950s, only about 5% of African Americans smoked menthol cigarettes
That all changed after the war

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Its 480,000 people each year in the United States, said Mary Rouvelas, senior counsel for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, which is the advocacy affiliate of the society