BREAKING: Read Dr. Valerie Yerger's Published Editorial Response to New Study About Menthol and African Americans

"Until this paper, no prior study has fully quantified thehealth harm inflicted on African Americans by menthol cigarettes." -- Dr. Valerie Yerger

Dr. Valerie Yerger, Director of The LOOP, was invited by the journal Tobacco Control to write an editorial in response to the new study. In the editorial, Dr. Yerger highlights the prevalence of menthol tobacco use in the African American community. Although some progress has been made, for example, by prohibiting cigarette flavor, menthol was inexplicably excluded. It has been estimated that hundreds of thousands of African Americans and other menthol smokers are destined to die prematurely if the exemption of menthol is allowed to continue.

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Source: Yerger (2021). What more evidence is needed? Remove menthol cigarettes from themarketplace—now. Tobacco Control, Sept.