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Join our fight to
SAVE BLACK LIVES
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SINCE THE 1950'S
Big Tobacco has aggressively targeted Black communities with menthol cigarettes through culturally tailored marketing and advertising
This led to much higher rates of cancer, heart disease, stroke, and death. Today, menthol cigarettes are the number one culprit of preventable deaths for Black people in America.
Let's change this fact.
Learn more by watching Black Lives / Black Lungs, a short film investigating the tobacco industry’s successful infiltration of Black America
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN TOBACCO CONTROL LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
is our country’s leading public health education and advocacy organization taking on Big Tobacco to save Black lives
We have grown our coalition of national and local organizations, traveled across the country to educate communities and build grassroots infrastructure, gotten major pieces of legislation ending the sale of menthol-flavored tobacco products passed in cities, counties, and states across the country, and sued the FDA to act on removing menthol flavored tobacco products from the market nationally.
Our work is making a difference in the lives of millions of African Americans but we are just getting started. We won’t give up our fight until there are no more African Americans who lose their life because of tobacco.
Menthol is a social justice issue.
"The disproportionate marketing and targeting of candy-flavored poison to African Americans and other oppressed sectors in society is
out-right discriminatory and genocidal."
Dr. Phil Gardiner
AATCLC
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