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We Are Not Profit
For too long the tobacco industry has been strategically killing the Black community with menthol cigarettes.3192021
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Tobacco industry’s damage
The tobacco industry currently spends billions each year on slick marketing tactics and political influence so they can profit off death and disease.2223
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Even for people who don’t use tobacco, there can be deadly consequences.24
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The industry calls kids their “replacement customers.”25 Big Tobacco sentences them to a lifetime of addiction and disease.
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This racist and unjust industry has strategically targeted certain communities with deadly products and manipulative messaging.26
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