TOBACCO & MENTHOL
We fight against the marketing and sale of deadly tobacco
products to Black people.
TOBACCO POLICY & OTHER RESOURCES
Links to a variety or tobacco related resources from trusted organizations.
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Supplement to Menthol Citizen Petition (2021)
Public Health Law Center, 2021
SB-793: What You Need to Know about California's Flavor Ban Law and Referendum
Public Health Law Center, 2020
U.S. Sales Restrictions on Flavored Tobacco Products (2020)
Public Health Law Center, 2020
States and Tribes Stepping in to Protect Communities from the Dangers of E-cigarettes: Actions and Options (2020)
Public Health Law Center, 2020
Regulating Flavored Tobacco Products (2019)
Public Health Law Center, 2019
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Tobacco Town Minnesota
Public Health Law Center, 2018
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Tobacco Town Minnesota: Modeling Menthol and Retailer Density Policies in Minnesota Communities (2018)
Public Health Law Center, 2018 [See also video]
More about Menthol: Regulating a Toxic Flavor
Public Health Law Center, 2018
Regulating Menthol Tobacco Products - Tips & Tools (2018)
Public Health Law Center, 2018
Health Risks of Betel Quid & Tobacco Use (2017)
Public Health Law Center, 2017
Leading from Up North: How Canada is Solving the Menthol Tobacco Problem (2017)
Public Health Law Center, 2017
Evans v. Lorillard: A Bittersweet Victory Against the Tobacco Industry (2016)
Public Health Law Center, 2016
Webinar: Regulating Menthol Tobacco Products: The Current Policy Landscape (2016)
Public Health Law Center, 2016
The Problem with Menthol: A Backgrounder (2015)
Public Health Law Center, 2015
Chicago's Regulation of Menthol Flavored Tobacco Products: A Case Study (2016)
Public Health Law Center, 2016
Regulating Menthol Flavored Tobacco Products: Lessons Learned (2015)
Public Health Law Center, 2015
Select Bibliography on Menthol Tobacco Products & Related Regulatory Resources (2015)
Public Health Law Center, 2015
Model Resolution Requesting that FDA Prohibit Menthol as a Characterizing Flavor in Cigarettes (2015)
Public Health Law Center, 2015
Litigation Overview: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Manufacturing Company LLC v. City of New York (2014)
Public Health Law Center, 2014
Making a Move on Menthol: Regulating Flavored Tobacco Products in Your Community (2014)
Public Health Law Center, 2014
Cool, Minty & Toxic: What to Do About the Problem of Menthol in Tobacco Products (2014)
Public Health Law Center, 2014
Highlights of Citizen Petition to FDA on Menthol as a Characterizing Flavor (2013)
Public Health Law Center, 2013
FDA Citizen Petition - Asking FDA to Prohibit Menthol as a Characterizing Flavor in Cigarettes (2013)
Public Health Law Center, 2013
Sample Language to Restrict the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products, Including Menthol (2014)
Public Health Law Center, 2014
How Other Countries Regulate Flavored Tobacco Products (2015)
Public Health Law Center, 2015
Minty Taste of Death: State and Local Options to Regulate Menthol in Tobacco Products (2015)
Public Health Law Center, 2015
What’s Menthol Got to Do with It? Everything (Still)!
African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council, 2019
FDA Sued Over Menthol Cigarettes
African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council, 2020 [Video linked at bottom of text]
Our Mission
African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council
Big Tobacco, Butt Out!
African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council, 2018 [Published in Oakland Post]
AATCLC At The KJLH Women's Health Expo
African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council, 2019
Menthol & Cigarettes
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020
Protecting Young People From E-cigarettes
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020
Quick Facts on the Risks of E-cigarettes for Kids, Teens, and Young Adults
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020
About Electronic Cigarettes (E-Cigarettes)
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020
Flavored Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2014–2018
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019
Youth Tobacco Use Infographics
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019
The Menthol Issue
The Center for Black Health & Equity
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Emerging Tobacco Products
Truth Initiative
New federal data: Flavored e-cigarettes continue to drive youth vaping epidemic, with disposable use up 1,000% among high schoolers
Truth Initiative, 2020
Local flavored tobacco policies
Truth Initiative, 2020
Weak restrictions on flavored e-cigarettes lead to explosive menthol sales
Truth Initiative, 2020
What vape products are still allowed under the new e-cigarette policy?
Truth Initiative, 2020
Study highlights importance of strong local flavored tobacco policies, as federal regulation falls short
Truth Initiative, 2020
Colorful and close to candy: Surveying how the tobacco industry markets flavored products in stores
Truth Initiative, 2020
75% of parents of middle and high schoolers support banning flavored e-cigarettes
Truth Initiative, 2019
E-cigarettes: Facts, stats and regulations
Truth Initiative
2019
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6 key takeaways from the new FDA plan on e-cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products
Truth Initiative, 2018
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JUUL fails to remove all of youth’s favorite flavors from stores
Truth Initiative, 2018
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Flavored tobacco use among youth and young adults
Truth Initiative, 2018
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Widespread use of flavored products in young tobacco users
Truth Initiative, 2017
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The youth e-cigarette epidemic: 5 important things to know
Truth Initiative, 2018
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Youth e-cigarette epidemic: Unintended consequences or strategic marketing?
Truth Initiative, 2018
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CDC/FDA show seven of ten youth using tobacco use flavored products
Truth Initiative, 2015
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Six highlights from the Tobacco Control special issue on flavors
Truth Initiative, 2016
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Majority of U.S. adults support banning menthol cigarettes, including many menthol smokers
Truth Initiative, 2020
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Targeted Communities
Truth Initiative, 2020
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Surgeon General’s Advisory on E-cigarette Use Among Youth
U.S. Surgeon General, 2019
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2016 Surgeon General's Report: E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults
U.S. Surgeon General, 2016
Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General
U.S. Surgeon General, 2020
Unit 2: What's Menthol Got to Do with It?
Stanford
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Unit 3: What's So Bad About E-Cigarettes and Vape Pens?
Stanford
Unit 4: Why do E-cigarettes and Vape Pens Matter to Young People?
Stanford
E-cigarette use, flavorings may increase heart disease risk, study finds
Stanford, 2019
Flavored Tobacco
San Francisco Tobacco Free Project
No More Flavors: A Case Study Addressing Flavored Tobacco in San Francisco
San Francisco Tobacco Free Project / Bright Research Group
2018
FDA Ban on Menthol Cigarettes (2013)
San Francisco Tobacco Free Project, 2013
Flavored Tobacco Sales Ban
San Francisco Department of Public Health, 2018
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Tobacco industry use of flavourings to promote smokeless tobacco products
UCSF, 2016
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Tobacco industry use of flavours to recruit new users of little cigars and cigarillos
UCSF, 2014
Does Experienced Discrimination Explain Patterns of Menthol Use Among Young Adults? Evidence from the 2014 San Francisco Bay Area Young Adult Health Survey
UCSF, 2019
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Mapping Menthol
UCSF
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Tobacco Industry Responses to Public Health Campaigns
UCSF
The Truth About Flavored Tobacco
California Dept. of Public Health, 2018
Tell FDA to Ban Flavored Tobacco
American Heart Association, 2018
The Menthol Myth
American Heart Association, 2020
E-cigarettes Threaten the "Tobacco Endgame"
American Heart Association, 2019
Chemicals used to flavor tobacco may damage blood vessels
American Heart Association, 2018
Youth and Tobacco: A New Crisis Infographic
American Heart Association, 2019
Is Vaping Better Than Smoking?
American Heart Association, 2018
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How to Keep Kids and Teens from Smoking and Vaping
American Heart Association
2018
The 101 on E-cigarettes Infographic
American Heart Association, 2019 [Available in multiple languages]
Black Lives / Black Lungs
Lincoln Mondy, 2017
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Black Lives / Black Lungs: The Journey of a Stolen Leaf
Lincoln Mondy, 2023
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What Is Menthol?
ALA - American Lung Association, 2021
Emerging Issue: Menthol Tobacco Products
ALA - American Lung Association, 2017
RE: Docket No. FDA-2013-N-0521, Menthol ANPRM
Multiple, 2013
Key to Ending Youth E-cigarette Epidemic: End Sales of Flavored Tobacco Products
ALA - American Lung Association, 2019
Trump Administration Should Not Exempt Vape Shops or Any Flavors from Its Plan to Clear the Market of All Flavored E-Cigarettes
ALA - American Lung Association, 2019
Take Action to Prevent and Reduce Tobacco Use: Tell Your Senators: It's Time to Prohibit All Flavored Tobacco Products
ALA - American Lung Association
The Flavor Trap
Tobacco Free Kids
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The Flavor Trap: How Tobacco Companies Are Luring Kids with Candy-Flavored E-Cigarettes and Cigars
Tobacco Free Kids, 2017
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U.S. State and Local Issues: Ending the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products
Tobacco Free Kids, 2021
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Juul and Youth: Rising E-Cigarette Popularity
Tobacco Free Kids, 2019
Electronic Cigarettes: An Overview of Key Issues
Tobacco Free Kids, 2020
Electronic Cigarettes and Youth
Tobacco Free Kids, 2020
Electronic Cigarettes Should Be Included in Smoke-Free Laws
Tobacco Free Kids, 2020
JUUL and Other High Nicotine E-Cigarettes Are Addicting A New Generation of Youth
Tobacco Free Kids, 2020
Flavored Tobacco Products Attract Kids
Tobacco Free Kids, 2021
Impact of Menthol Cigarettes on Youth Smoking Initiation and Health Disparities
Tobacco Free Kids, 2021
Flavored Tobacco Products Attract Kids (Brief version)
Tobacco Free Kids, 2020
States and Localities That Have Restricted the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products
Tobacco Free Kids, 2021
Marketing Menthol: The History of Tobacco Industry Targeting of African Americans
Tobacco Free Kids, 2020
Flavored E-Cigarettes Hook Kids
Tobacco Free Kids, 2020
Flavored Tobacco Sales Restrictions: Promising Evidence for Reducing Youth Access and Tobacco Use
Tobacco Free Kids, 2021
Flavored Disposable E-Cigarettes Appeal to Kids and Remain Widely Available
Tobacco Free Kids, 2021
Tobacco Retailer Mapping Study
Tobacco Free Kids, 2020 [See also, video]
Advocacy Action Guide: A Toolkit for Strategic Policy Advocacy Campaigns
Advocacy Incubator / Tobacco Free Kids, 2019
Tobacco Control Laws Database
Tobacco Free Kids
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Excluding Cigars from Tobacco Control Laws Puts Everyone At Risk
ACS - American Cancer Society, 2021
It's time to end the youth e-cigarette vaping epidemic
ACS - American Cancer Society
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Menthol Harms Vermont
ACS - American Cancer Society
Similar petitions exist for other states regarding menthol and flavored tobacco products on the ACS CAN website
It's time to end the sale of all flavored tobacco products. [Minnesota]
ACS - American Cancer Society
Similar petitions exist for other states regarding menthol and flavored tobacco products on the ACS CAN website
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Phase Out the Commercial Sale of Cigarettes
ASH - Action on Smoking and Health
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E-Cigarettes & the Fight Against Tobacco
ASH - Action on Smoking and Health
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Emerging Issues in Commercial Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Social Media Toolkit
Multiple, 2020
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Building a Movement to Regulate Menthol Tobacco in Minnesota
Multiple, 2017
ASH & AATCLC File Lawsuit Against FDA
ASH - Action on Smoking and Health
2020
END the sale of all flavored tobacco products
Minnesotans for a Smoke-Free Generation
2021
Prohibit the sale of all flavored tobacco products
Minnesotans for a Smoke-Free Generation
2020
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Policy Options for Restricting Sales of Menthol Cigarettes and Other Flavored Tobacco Products
(For local governments in California & across the country)
ChangeLab Solutions
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Model Resolution Encouraging the Food & Drug Administration to Ban the Use of Menthol in Cigarettes
ChangeLab Solutions, 2013
Limiting “Teen-Friendly” Cigars: What communities can do
ChangeLab Solutions, 2012
Tobacco Companies Are Sweet-Talking Our Kids: Talking points & strategies
ChangeLab Solutions, 2017
Flavored Tobacco Sales Regulations
Public Health and Tobacco Policy Center, 2020
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Menthol in Tobacco Products: Case Studies for Regulatory Approaches to Tobacco Products
WHO / PHTPC, 2018
Point of Sale Tobacco Marketing
Public Health and Tobacco Policy Center, 2017
Tobacco Fact Sheet: Menthol
Legacy for Health, 2014
Tobacco in America: Leaving the Vulnerable Behind
ASH - Action on Smoking and Health, 2017
Tobacco Use and Ethnicity
Tobacco Free Kids, 2017
Tobacco Use in Asian American Communities
APPEAL - Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy & Leadership, 2014
Too Many Cases, Too Many Deaths: Lung Cancer in African Americans
ALA - American Lung Association, 2010
California Ordinances
National Local Advocacy Alliance
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Flavored Tobacco Products
Counter Tobacco
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Menthol
Counter Tobacco
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Local Menthol Policies: Case Studies
Counter Tobacco, 2017
Store Assessment Tools
Counter Tobacco
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Evidence Summaries and Reports
Counter Tobacco
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