It started around the time when it stopped being profitable to recommend cigarettes as healthy to white people. Civil rights wins created a consumer class in the black community that they shifted to under the guise that it was a status symbol instead of a health supplement.
But why? I mean, why? Wtf
cause the menthol numbs the throat a little and lets you smoke more. more smoking more $$$.
It started around the time when it stopped being profitable to recommend cigarettes as healthy to white people. Civil rights wins created a consumer class in the black community that they shifted to under the guise that it was a status symbol instead of a health supplement.