Few magazines have been aimed exclusively at an African-American readership, but the two with the largest circulations the weekly Jet and the monthly Ebony , both published by Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago until the company was sold in 2016 contained cigarette advertisements in nearly every issue, and neither ever published an article focusing on the impact of cigarette smoking in the African-American community
As a young black kid, you grow up knowing who the hell Julian Bond is. McGruder doesnt recall Bond yelling, but he wasnt happy about it and he wasnt going to entertain it, she says
The fly guys all smoked in movies
Lorillard Tobacco launched their menthol Newport brand in 1957, but despite a series of popular television ads, they couldnt get a foothold in a field dominated by Salem and Kool
But for reasons agency officials wont discuss, nothing has happened since
Plain Jane