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Accessed February 20, 2026.

Before September 11 we had become a society that gobbles up anything in its path and is still waiting for what else it can have

This year, some 221,200 Americans are expected to be diagnosed with lung cancer and about 158,040 people are expected to die of the disease, the society reports

But Hazel Dukes, president of the NAACP New York State Conference, sees it this way: If we dont act now, tobacco companies will stop at nothing to continue targeting communities of color particularly Black youth with these highly addictive, poisonous, and life-threatening products. That targeting is a decadeslong phenomenon