![How Big Tobacco Is Exploiting the LGBTQ+ Community](https://smokefreecapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/pride-blog-post-image.png)
How Big Tobacco Is Exploiting the LGBTQ+ Community
Pride Month is celebrated every June to promote the dignity, equality and increased visibility of the LGBTQ+ community. The tobacco industry has turned it into an opportunity to exploit LGBTQ+ lives for profit. Over the past 30 years, major tobacco companies...
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2021 Reality Check Senior Spotlight
This month, two of our Reality Check members, Praaghya and Rishita, are graduating from high school, and CDTFC would like to take a moment to thank them for all their hard work these past three years. Praaghya Meyyan, a senior at Columbia High School (pictured on...
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Healthy Homes Month
Each June, National Healthy Homes Month aims to increase awareness of housing-related health hazards and to encourage residents to take actions and steps to make their homes safe and healthy living spaces. One important step is to eliminate exposure to secondhand...
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New statewide “It’s Not Just” campaign aimed at exposing targeted marketing of menthol cigarettes to Black communities
Today is No Menthol Sunday and in collaboration with our statewide tobacco control partners, we're launching a new statewide initiative that aims to put a spotlight on how the tobacco industry has aggressively marketed menthol products to African Americans.1,2 The...
![CDTFC Statement on FDA Announcement on Menthol](https://smokefreecapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/news-2389226_1280-1080x675.png)
CDTFC Statement on FDA Announcement on Menthol
The FDA announced today that it will begin the rulemaking process to ban menthol cigarettes and all flavors in cigars. This is a long overdue victory for public health! For more than 60 years the tobacco industry has been using menthol cigarettes and...