Adults In 2019, 80.9% of Black American adult smokers used menthol cigarettes, compared to 43.4% of adult smokers overall
The temptation has been strong, from advertisements for tobacco in baseball cards decades ago, to the glorified moment of New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth accepting a plug of chew from his girlfriend before a climactic game-winning hit in the 1927 movie, Babe Comes Home. What movies rarely document is the dark side: Tony Gwynn, one of the greats on and off the field, dying at 54 after a long fight with mouth cancer
Smokers draw smoke into the mouth, let it rest briefly on the palate to appreciate the flavor, then exhale
Some of these carcinogens include formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, hydrazine, arsenic, cadmium, benzopyrene, lead, and radioactive polonium from the soil tobacco leaves grow in