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In 2015, Lorillard, whose sales depended on menthols for roughly 85 percent of sales the year prior, merged with Reynolds American Inc

That same year, the National Black Monitor , a now-defunct magazine, published an article ghost-written by an official from RJ Reynoldsa tobacco company that funded journalism scholarships for African American students and in 1985 was named advertiser of the year by a black newspaper publishers group

Federal officials are now considering whether to add menthol, the minty, throat-numbing additiveto the list of flavorings Congress banned from cigarettes in 2009 for public health reasons