By Clarence Nicholas NAACP Milwaukee President The tobacco industry decades ago launched a devastating campaign to target the Black community with its products, its primary tool being menthol cigarettes. This sustained attack on Black health has resulted in profits in the billions and the deaths of millions. Understandably, health and social and racial justice advocates, […]
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EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES
Puff, Puff, Stop
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Ban on Menthol Cigarettes and the Black Community When you don’t smoke, it seems extremely weird to see people smoking in public. At first glance, second-hand smoke has become a second-hand thought ever since we changed Wisconsin’s laws around public smoking in 2010. But like anything else, a […]