Restaurants, bars, nightclubs and jails have been given a waiver. Blacks July 1, 1993. The Centers for DIsease Control and prevention, along with the National Medical Association, an association of 16,000 minority doctors, is intituting a nationwide campaign to fight the targeting of blacks by the tobacco industry. The campaign criticizes the targeting of blacks by the tobacco companies, and states that there are 4 times as many billboards in black areas than in white. The tobacco industry claims it doesn't target blacks, and that advertising doesn't make people start smoking.
Black smokers have a relatively high incidence of lung cancer.
Leukemia Risk Found Higher in Smokers June 28, 1993. A study by Kaiser Permanente's Division of Research found that male smokers had almost 3 times the risk of developoing acute nonlymphocytic leukemia than non-smokers and that former smokers decreased their odds only slightly. Women's rates were unaffected. The gender difference, while a mystery, correlates with other research on smoking and leukemia. Intel Lobbies for Sin Tax June 4, 1993.