Updates

Minorities And Smoking Of Mice and Menthol The Targeting of African Americans by the Tobacco Industry

Links, stories, newly uncovered items, and updates related to minorities and tobacco since the exhibition’s launch in May, 2018.

1987

The Impact of Cigarette Smoking on Minority Populations
Report by Alan Blum, MD to the Surgeon General’s Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health from March 31, 1987
1989
Fuse Lit For New Anti-Smoking Fight
Article by Myron Levin of The Los Angeles Times, from January 31, 1989

1989
1989

The Targeting of Minority Groups by the Tobacco Industry
Textbook Chapter by Alan Blum, MD in Lovell A. Jones’ Minorities and Cancer from 1989.
2003
“Come Up to the Kool Taste”: African American Upward Mobility and the Semiotics of Smoking Menthols
Article by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain in Public Culture from, 2003

2003
2011

Ban of Menthol Cigarettes Needed
Article by Alan Blum, MD in The Birmingham News from April 3, 2011
2011
Shadow Panel Statement on TPSAC Menthol Report
Article by Alan Blum and the FDA Shadow Panel from March, 2011

2011
2011

Letter on Menthol
Letter from Alan Blum, MD in The Tobacco Reporter, 2011
2018
Of Mice and Menthol
Poster, 2018

2018
2019

Minorities and Smoking: Mice & Menthol
Flyer from the National Conference on Tobacco OR Health from 2019
2021
The UnKOOL, Unfiltered History of Menthol Cigarettes
Article by Alan Blum, MD in The Cancer Letter from May, 2021.

2021

Minorities And Tobacco Of Mice and Menthol The Targeting of African Americans by the Tobacco Industry

Curated by Alan Blum, MD

Professor,
Department of Family Medicine
Gerald Leon Wallace, MD, Endowed Chair in Family Medicine
College of Community Health Sciences
Director, Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society
The University of Alabama

Designed by Kevin Bailey, MA

Digital Archivist
Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society
The University of Alabama

Assisted by Mary Clare Johnson

Collection Manager
Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society
The University of Alabama