Why menthol bans protect African Americans.

Competing Interests: The authors have each completed and submitted an ICMJE form for disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. The authors declare that they have no competing interests, financial or otherwise, related to the current work. L. Huber reports that since the initial planning of the work he was employed by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), a US based nonprofit organization dedicated to tobacco control, and that within the past 36 months ASH did receive a grant from Kaiser Permanente in 2020 to develop webinars on how to use global governance mechanisms to support menthol bans in tobacco products to protect the health of African Americans. C. McGruder reports programmatic funding from the California Tobacco Control Program/The Center for Black Health and Equity and that she was Co-Chair of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council and President of the ‘Protect Our Children from Flavors’ campaign California, within the past 36 months. N. Phelps reports that since the initial planning of the work, was a Public Health Law Center employee funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and within the past 36 months she was part of The Center for Black Health and Equity.