Dr. Valerie Yerger and Carol McGruder, co-founders of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (savingblacklives.org) have spent years fighting to protect African American kids from menthol cigarettes and the predatory behavior of Big Tobacco.
A 2009 federal ban on flavored cigarettes exempted menthol, allowing the industry to continue its decades-long targeting of African American communities with menthol-flavored tobacco products.
On today’s episode we have a candid conversation with these courageous moms about the racialized public-health issue of banning menthol-flavored tobacco products, why they joined this fight, the catastrophic consequences these products have had on African American families, and they must be banned immediately.
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