Phillip Gardiner

co-chair of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council

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On Thursday, the FDA announced that it plans to ban what it calls “the last allowable flavor” in cigarettes: menthols.

Menthol cigarettes face future ban from FDA. They were heavily marketed to Black Americans

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