| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 25 African Americans And Smoking |
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| A 1993 winner of a $5000 "Kool Achiever" award was Ronald Johnson, a former |
| gang member now working in a gang prevention program. At an awards ceremony, he |
| declined the prize in front of a stunned audience, citing nicotine addiction as having |
| turned into "a war on black men." He called nicotine the "number one most addictive |
| drug on the planet," and the audience of 150 gave him a standing ovation. |
| Tobacco Control, Spring 1994, p. 11 |
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| "With massive, deceptive advertising and promotions in African American |
| communities, the tobacco industry spreads its pervasive and deadly addiction." |
| Rev. Jesse Brown, National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery |
| (SCARC, April 29, 1994) |
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| "While RJ Reynolds plasters 'Joe Camel' billboards and signs everywhere, they then |
| go hire actor Danny Glover to appear in ads that say that the company really doesn't |
| think that 'kids' should smoke... Do we really think that the fox truly cares about the |
| safety of the chickens?" |
| Rev. Jesse Brown, The Uptown Coalition for Tobacco Control |
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| Blacks absorb as much as 30% more nicotine than whites or Hispanics with every |
| cigarette that they smoke; this may explain why they have more difficulty stopping |
| smoking and have a higher rate of lung cancer. |
| New York Times, July 8, 1998, p. A16 |
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| In St. Louis, 62% of billboards in the black community advertised cigarettes and |
| alcohol, compared with 36% of billboards in the white community. In a poor black area |
| of Philadelphia, 66 out of 73 billboards in one 19-block area advertised alcohol or |
| tobacco. |
| Journal of the National Medical Association, November 1989, p. 1121 |
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