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Keeping Our Lungs Safe

Keeping Our Lungs Safe

Faith-Based Fact Card

African American and Menthol Fact Card

WE ARE NOT PROFIT THE TRUTH

Did you know... 1. The 80-90% of African Americans who smoke use menthol cigarettes. 2. Menthol cigarettes are often cheaper in African American neighborhoods. 3. There at 10x as many tobacco advertisements and retailers in African American neighborhoods. 4. 45,000 African Americans die every year from smoking-induced illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, and stroke. 5. Tobacco kills more African Americans annually than AIDS, alcohol, illegal drugs, car accidents, murders, and suicides COMBINED .

Protect the Health of Our Faith Community

Big Tobacco began marketing menthol cigarettes to African Americans in the 1960s. More African Americans die from health issues due to smoking than AIDS, car crashes, murders, drug, and alcohol abuse combined.

Menthol makes it easier to start but harder to quit . Menthol also hides the strong taste of tobacco. This lets smokers take deep breaths which causes harmful particles to go deeper into the lungs. Almost half of African Americans would quit smoking if menthol cigarettes were banned.

HOSEA 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…

Today, nearly 90% of African American smokers use menthol products.

VOICE YOUR CONCERN • Join the Keeping Our Lungs Safe coalition to

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Join the Keeping Our Lungs Safe Coalition » Learn about the dangers of tobacco and the impact it has on the African American community. » Assist church campuses to adopt formal smoke free policies. » Gain new skills on how to improve the health of the community. » Collaborate with other city residents and community-based organizations. Free Help to Quit Tobacco FOR SMOKERS CALL 1-800-NO-BUTTS Or Text “NoSmokes” to 66819 www.nobutts.org FOR VAPE USERS CALL 1-844-8-NO-VAPE Or text “NoVapes” to 66819 www.novapes.org Contact Us

become an advocate for our community ! • Learn more about how the tobacco industry targets African Americans visit: www.tobaccofreeca.com/we-are-not-profit/

African Communities Public Health Coalition Carson, Lancaster, Palmdale, Hawthorne (213) 909-0985

FREE HELP TO QUIT TOBACCO For Smokers call 1-800-NO-BUTTS Or Text “NoSmokes” to 66819

© 2020. California Department of Public Health. Funded under contract #18-10757. • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. (2014). • Pearson, JL, et al. A Ban on Menthol Cigarettes: Impact on Public Opinion and Smokers’ Intention to Quit. American Journal of Public Health , 102.11 (2012): 107-14. SOURCES • Gardiner, PS. The African Americanization of Menthol Cigarette Use in the United States. Nicotine & Tobacco Research , 6, no. Supplemental 1 (2004): S55-S65. • Giovino, GA, et al. Differential Trends in Cigarette Smoking in the USA: Is Menthol Slowing Progress? Tobacco Control , 24.1 (2015): 28-37. • Kreslake, J.M., et al., Tobacco industry control of menthol in cigarettes and targeting of adolescents and young adults. American Journal of Public Health , 2008. 98(9): p. 1685. • Xu, JQ, et al. Deaths: Final Data for 2016. National Vital Statistics Reports , 67.5 (2018).

Keeping Our Lungs Safe

Sources: 1. Food and Drug Administration. Preliminary Scientific Evaluation of the Possible Public Health Effects of Menthol Versus Nonmenthol Cigarettes .2013. 2. Cantrell, J. et al. Marketing little cigars and cigarillos: advertising, price, and associations with neighborhood demographics. American Journal of Public Health. 2013. 3. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Tobacco Use Among U.S. Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups—African Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and Hispanics: A Report of the Surgeon General.1998. 4. Robinson, R.G. et al. Pathways to Freedom: Winning the Fight Against Tobacco. 2006.

www.nobutts.org For Vape Users call 1-844-8-NO-VAPE Or text “NoVapes” to 66819 www.novapes.org

African Communities Public Health Coalition Inglewood, Gardena, Carson (213) 909-0985 africancoalition.org/kols/

The Nile Sisters Development Initiative Lancaster, Compton (619) 265-2959

The G.R.E.E.N. Foundation Palmdale, Hawthorne 323-229-3411

Multiunit Housing (MUH) Fact Card

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