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The Campaign for the Culture is an initiative of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids focused on uniting, empowering, educating and engaging people of color and other targeted communities around critical healthcare and human rights issues connected to tobacco use, with the goal of inspiring young community members to avoid or quit tobacco use. This comprehensive initiative includes: a cultural conversations series, HBCU listening tour, virtual summit, dinner series and advocate profiles.

The campaign is focused on the following core pillars:

  • Educating the public and building awareness in Black and other impacted communities about the harmful effects of tobacco use.
  • Engaging the medical community and appealing to providers for support.
  • Mobilizing NGOs, policy experts, community leaders and key stakeholders to activate ground-level support for policies and actions.
 

Creating Change from the Ground Up: How Black Women Are Leading the Way to Health Equity

Aired March 8, 2023

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Creating Change from the Ground Up: How Black Women Are Leading the Way to Health Equity

Aired March 8, 2023

For decades, the tobacco industry has targeted Black communities with marketing for menthol cigarettes, with devastating impact on Black health and lives. As a result, tobacco use is the number one cause of preventable death among Black Americans, claiming 45,000 Black lives each year, and Black Americans have a harder time quitting smoking and are more likely to die from tobacco-related diseases like lung cancer, heart disease and stroke. The tobacco industry has also deliberately targeted women and girls, luring and addicting millions, and the resulting harmful consequences for women’s health occur at every stage of life. Now, for the first time ever, women who smoke are as likely as men to die from many of the diseases caused by smoking.

In this installment of our Campaign for the Culture conversation series, we discussed the strategies, tools and policies to reverse these tobacco-related health disparities – and the work being done by advocates to put those policies in place. We heard from those who have always been at the forefront championing this issue: Black women.

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The Take Down

The Take Down is a series of candid interviews about tobacco use and advocacy within communities most impacted by Big Tobacco’s tactics.


In this edition of The Take Down, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids’ Nikkya Taliaferro interviews Ed Sanders, President of the ES Advisors Group, and Kellie Hawkins, Partner at EKA. Ed and Kellie were integral organizers in the successful campaign to end the sale of flavored tobacco products in California.

In Conversation with Ed Sanders and Kellie Hawkins

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In Conversation with Shauvon Simmons-Wright

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In Conversation with Earl Fowlkes, Jr.

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In Conversation with Dr. Larider Ruffin

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In Conversation with Laphonza Butler

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In Conversation with Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson

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In Conversation with Dr. Elena Rios

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In Conversation with Bryce Moore

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In Conversation with Lincoln Mondy

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My Family’s Relationship With Tobacco

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About This Issue

For decades, the tobacco industry has targeted Black Americans, especially youth, with marketing for menthol cigarettes and other tobacco products like flavored cigars.

The tobacco industry’s predatory marketing has had a devastating impact on Black health and lives. Tobacco use is the number one cause of preventable death among Black Americans, claiming 45,000 Black lives each year. Black Americans are disproportionately impacted by tobacco use and die at higher rates than other groups from tobacco-related diseases such as cancer, heart disease and stroke. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the Black community.

Now there is growing evidence that smoking and other tobacco use can increase risk for Covid-19, which has so disproportionately impacted Black Americans. There has never been a more important time to stop the tobacco industry from targeting Black Americans and other groups, prevent kids from using tobacco and help more tobacco users quit.

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How Big Tobacco Targets Black Americans

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