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The companies reinforced the popularity of Kool and other brands by sponsoring cultural events and pouring marketing dollars into black media and neighborhoodsall part of what Gardiner calls the African Americanization of menthol cigarette use. The industrys hiring practices were also quite progressive for their time

In the same period, filters in cigarettes began to be seen as a way to slightly reduce the damage from smoking by filtering out some of the harmful products of combustion

Robinson & Sutton, 1994)." Mondy called the tobacco industry's infiltration into the black community "strategic." Tobacco companies like Altria have donated millions of dollars to black institutions -- including the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, historically black colleges and universities, and the NAACP -- over the years

10-packs: $2 to $3 per smoke