Funding and promoting educational campaigns about tobacco use, information, and proven resources to help people quit tobacco use
THE WAY FORWARD: HIGHLIGHTING INDUSTRY TACTICS TO BUILD ON YOUTH SKEPTICISM TO DISCOURAGE USE After decades of watching its customer base dwindle, the tobacco industry seized on a lax regulatory environment to introduce new products, launched a targeted marketing campaign to draw in youth, introduced flavors to get them to try new products, and delivered high doses of nicotine to keep them coming back for more
20 Public health officials hypothesize that the widespread use of mentholated cigarettes among African Americans may, in part, be the reason why they suffer from higher smoking-related health risks
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While South Carolina, which was included in our last report, still has higher smoking prevalence than the national average, it did not consistently rate in the top 25% of smoking prevalence for states in the period we examined
