through patient care and research to limit its influence and foster healing? It’s no surprise that such motivations led me to cancer research and specifically oncology—where I remain, serving residents of New York City dealing namely with lung cancer; the formidable cancer type causing the most cancer deaths, in fact more than breast, colon and prostate cancer combined.
New York City has the opportunity to make a dent in Big Tobacco’s influence by ending the sale of menthol cigarettes across the five boroughs. It’s time the City Council stood up to the bad actor in Big Tobacco that contributes to countless cancer-related deaths a year, in our city alone. From 1980 to 2018, menthol cigarettes were responsible for 10.1 million more people smoking, 3 million life-years lost and 378,000 premature deaths. Due to Big Tobacco’s targeting of Black communities through advertising, price promotions and more, a disproportionate amount of the deaths attributed to menthol cigarettes were those of Black individuals, many of whom lived in urban communities like our own. Nearly 83.1% of African Americans who smoke use menthol cigarettes, compared to 31.
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