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Activists Say: Banning Newport, Other Flavored Cigarettes Puts Black Lives in Danger

Eric Garner’s mother Gwendolyn Carr says, for Black Men, selling a single cigarette, known as “loosey,” can lead to an arrest, a prison sentence or even death.

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