Public health and civil rights groups have long argued Black Americans have been disproportionately harmed by menthol cigarettes, as the tobacco industry deliberately targeted Black communities for decades
In the 1950s, less than 10% of Black people who smoked used menthol cigarettes, according to research commissioned by Philip Morris, but surveys at the time demonstrated that Black Americans had slightly higher preferences than white Americans for those products
Some drugs affected by the CYP1A2 isoenzyme system include psychiatric medications (eg, clozapine, olanzapine, imipramine, diazepam, ramelteon), antihypertensive drugs (eg, propranolol, verapamil), opioid analgesics (eg, propoxyphene), anticoagulants (warfarin), and drugs used to treat asthma and other respiratory problems (eg, theophylline)
Inhaling the smoke of tobacco is associated with increased oxidative stress 53 Kamceva, G., Arsova-Sarafinovska, Z., Ruskovska, T., Zdravkovska, M., Kamceva-Panova, L., & Stikova, E