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Menthols and other flavored tobacco products have been disproportionately marketed and sold to Black and other minority communities for years, according to a 2015 study in the American Journal of Public Health

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This points to yet another confirmatory data point in support of Jha et al and Thun et als finding that smokers life spans are cut short by over a decade

Additionally, epidemiologic studies conducted since the 1960s have also reported lower risk of lung cancer and all-cause mortality attributable to the use of a filter tip on cigarettes, reinforcing a widely held view that the filter tip on a cigarette reduces the risks associated with smoking 14-23