How You Can Help

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 11, 2008

In spite of all the money given to our organizations, cultural arts and college funds, the Tobacco Industry does not care if we die or get sick. They only want us to buy their deadly products.  How do we know? Below are a few quotes from their own internal documents:

"Inner city sampling programs and specialized POS (Point of Sale) will continue to be employed to increase menthol exposure among blacks..."

Phillip Morris/Altria Page 8, Bates No. 204354043

"Most every consumer products company has marketing programs aimed at African Americans"
"The green and white ball could become an interesting symbol within the inner city and could be very popular."
Brown and Williamson Tobacco Document referenced in the New York Times, February 1998 Data on Tobacco Show a Strategy Aimed at Blacks by Barry Meier.

The Salem Black Initiative Program by R. J. Reynolds:  "The best way to reach minority consumers is through their local communities, and they tend to support brands that they see are doing something for them. But the brand's support must be seen as authentic and as being backed by other blacks-not as a big white company's tactic to sell to blacks.  If Salem can become a positive contributing factor to blacks' economic and person well-being, it could ultimately be "unpatriotic" to smoke anything else."

Bates No. 507137652/7666.

Tobacco use kills 45,000 African Americans per year.  AACOH needs your financial support to help our communities overcome tobacco industry targeting. We are racially profiled for death and disease. Your support is greatly needed to overcome the tobacco industry's assault on us.

Please mail your tax-deductible contribution to:

Ohio African American Communities for Optimum Health, Inc.
AACOH
P. O. Box 185

Columbus, Ohio 43216-0185

1-866-61-AACOH

1-866-612-2264

E-Mail: aacoh4us@aol.com