04-29-2021, 08:54 AM
(04-29-2021, 08:49 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: The marketing towards the black community began with the introduction of menthol cigarettes. There was no time for the black community to already prefer them.
I don't know about that. The very first advertisement for Menthols didn't have a black person on them, and Kools didn't come out until a decade later. The rise of Menthol didn't occur until the 1950's so there was a lot of ramp-up until mass adoption by the African American community.