2004 No Wine Shop

2003 Philadelphia Alcohol Billboard Ban

2002
Stop Liquor Ads on NBC

2002 Community Partners

2001
Swisher Ain't Sweet

1999
Marlboro Mild

1998 African Amer. & Tobacco Settlement

1998 African Amer. Tobacco Ind. Lawsuit

1997 Say No to Menthol Joe

1996 Hands off Halloween

1995 X Cigarette

1994 World No Tobacco Day Activities

1993 Defeat of PowerMaster Malt Liquor

1990 Uptown Coalition

 

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Tobacco Companies Target Black Smokers
by Glenn A. McCurdy
Philadelphia New Observer
January 31, 2001
www.onyx-group.com/observer.htm

Federal Court Panel Hears Appeal by Black Smokers
by Joseph A. Slobodzian
Philadelphia Inquirer
January 20, 2001
inq.philly.com:80/content/inquirer/2001/01/20/city/PTOBA20.htm

Holy Smokes!
by Sabrina Rubin
Philadelphia Magazine
February 1999
www.naaapi.org/documents/justice.htm

Tobacco Companies Accused of Targeting Blacks with Menthol
CNN/Associated Press
October 22, 1998
cnn.com/US/9810/22/cigarettes.blacks/index.html

Black Group Sues Tobacco Company Over Menthol Cigarettes
by Ron Todt
Associated Press
October 23, 1998
www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n955.a02.html

Black Lungs
by Salim Muwakkil
Gambit Weekly Wire
June 22, 1998
weeklywire.com/ww/06-22-98/gambit_feat-scut.html

Smoking Data Puzzle
by Tanya Barrientos
Chicago Tribune
Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service
February 21, 1995
www.udayton.edu/~health/01status/smoking/puzzle.htm

Kiss of Death: African-Americans and the Tobacco Industry
by Claudia Morain
American Medical News
November 15, 1993
www.udayton.edu/~health/01status/smoking/kiss.htm

Fact sheet for the lawsuit.

Fact sheet for menthol in cigarettes.

Article about the Menthol lawsuit.

Other media coverage on the lawsuit.

The Civil Rights lawsuit.

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