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LOS ANGELES â On a quiet, hedge-lined block in Downey, the affluent, now majority-Latino suburb in southeast Los Angeles, Jimmy Humilde, CEO of Rancho Humilde Records, is putting the finishing touches on the latest addition to his lavish home: an indoor shark tank. Soon to house a leopard shark and a gray shark, the aquarium sits at the base of a white marble staircase, crowned by a painted fresco of cherubs and a single eagle flying between fluffy clouds. The eagle pays tribute to Humilde s late father. One thing that I promised myself is that, if I made it, I wasn t leaving the hood â now I m two minutes away, says Humilde, now 41. That s where I get the good tacos.
Friday, May 21. I’m Laura Newberry, and I’m writing from Los Angeles.
For decades, tobacco companies have faced criticism for targeting the cool mint flavor of menthol products to Black people. Bright-colored advertisements for Newport and Kool menthol cigarettes are common at convenience stores and gas stations in predominantly Black neighborhoods.
Now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is resuming its efforts to ban menthol cigarettes a move that the agency and public health organizations say would save Black lives.
The proposed ban exposes longtime racial inequities of one of the most stigmatizing public health issues in the U.S. Black consumers who stand to be most affected by the proposed change are often left out of the conversation. And tobacco companies and other groups have called the ban discriminatory for targeting products consumers of color often buy.