This same company, now, is also making pipe tobacco of equal quality, in forms of menthol and blue flavors
Tobacco companies also gave millions of dollars to black institutions, like the NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus and others
Lux distributed during World War II and the Korean War are all non-filtered versions, and most Lucky Strikes exposed in the mass media are non-filtered
Now if we think about tobacco in the same way, Hart says, the people who are gonna pay the price are the same people who pay the price poor people. Indeed, nearly three-fourths of all US smokers come from lower socioeconomic statuses, with those below the poverty line twice as likely to smoke as those above it
There is enormous value, of course, in making art that restores beauty, complexity, intimacy, and grandeur to Black life