June 6, 1964
To read more, see Phillip Gardiner, “The African Americanization of Menthol Cigarette Use in the United States,” and Sarah S. Lochlann Jain, “‘Come Up to the Kool Taste’: African American Upward Mobility and the Semiotics of Smoking Menthol” (Public Culture 15, no. 2, 2003).
