According to the CDC, we must add commercial tobacco to the long list of causes for health inequities and disparities in the black community.
Commercial tobacco* gets in the way of achieving health equity for African American people:
*“Commercial tobacco” means harmful products that are made and sold by tobacco companies. It does not include “traditional tobacco” used by Indigenous groups for religious or ceremonial purposes.
The Institute for Minority Health's Reducing Tobacco Inequities project is a community-based approach. The community-based model recognizes the importance of treating members of a community as active and equal participants in all phases of the process to facilitate change.
To address health equity, we work with organizations and coalitions engaged in MS anti-smoking advocacy efforts. The specific aims of this project are to implement a culturally specific tobacco cessation program targeting African American males ages 12 and older in the Mississippi Delta River Region of Mississippi.
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