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Tobacco industries specifically found influencers in Black communities - Wailoo said it could be a barber, a bellhop - and gave them free samples, to build markets surreptitiously. "A lot of Black periodicals, like Ebony, became so dependent on tobacco advertising, that they were silent of the devastating impact of smoking in the Black community," he said.Īnd the push went beyond just imagery in magazines and billboards. "It's then that the industry began to pivot aggressively towards targeted marketing in Black communities," said Wailoo. No handing out free loose cigarettes to people under 21. That meant no advertising on college campuses. In 1964, federal regulators barred tobacco companies from advertising to their key youth demographic. "It's a long time coming," said Keith Wailoo, author of the book Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette. And that's had a strong enough impact that when the Food and Drug Administration proposed a ban on menthol cigarettes yesterday, the agency specifically noted that the move would save the lives of 92,000 to 238,000 African Americans. Menthol cigarettes have been historically heavily marketed toward Black Americans. Another ad features, yes, another young Black couple smiling and laughing – this time at a coffee shop.
Beneath them simply reads the tagline "pleasure!" A different ad in this campaign has another young Black couple, smiling over a park fence by some rafters while one of them holds a cigarette. There's an ad for Newport cigarettes from 2011 that features a young Black couple, smiling and flirting over a plate of burger and fries.
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