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It is well known that tobacco companies, in the 1960s and 70s, targeted menthol cigarettes to African American communities, and menthol cigarettes became ubiquitous in those communities, said David Mendez, lead author of the study and an associate professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the U-M School of Public Health

For years, anti-smoking activists have been focused on menthol, said Valerie Yerger, an associate professor of health policy at the University of California-San Francisco

Optimism and CES-D also serve as mediators to a less extent, with indirect effects of = -0.0001 (95% CI: -0.00020.0000) and =0.0002 (95% CI: -0.00000.0000), accounting for 0.8% and -1.4% of the total effects, respectively