Kool cigarettes have undergone more makeovers than the Kardashians. Initially, they used a cartoon penguin named “Willie,” who was a chef, a soldier and a doctor. Then, in the 1960s, they kicked ...

“I like that clean taste and smooth feeling in my throat,” reads the word bubble from the mouth of Elston Howard, the first Black player for the New York Yankees, who was cast in an early 1960s print ...

Menthol ads went after Black consumers for decades "Feel the extra coolness in your throat," read one 1964 cigarette advertisement featuring a handsome Black couple with Kool menthol cigarettes lodged ...

Menthol cigarettes represent nearly 40% of all cigarettes purchased and consumed by Americans. When menthol tobacco products were emerging in 1933, however, the brand Kool represented only 2% of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Debra Lewis, 62, has smoked menthol cigarettes for 40 years and has tried to quit repeatedly. The FDA has restarted efforts to ban ...

Like me, Judge Otis D. Wright of the Central District of California remembers KOOL. A once leading menthol cigarette label, KOOL brands and its owner ITG Brands, LLC sued Capna Intellectual claiming ...

Makers of Kool cigarettes have agreed to limit a hip-hop theme marketing campaign and pay almost $1.5 million for anti-smoking programs following lawsuits claiming they targeted young people.

Following a report issued by the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) last week claiming that a menthol cigarette ban would be beneficial to public health, journalist Denise Mann ...

Left: A Kool cigarettes advertisement targeting Black communities for a sponsored event, the Kool Jazz Festival; Right: A Kent cigarettes ad targeting Black smokers. Lincoln Mondy grew up in a mixed ...

Kool, a menthol cigarette brand, is hoping to expand market share with a recent 500,000-piece postcard mailing to prospective adult menthol cigarette buyers. The campaign, which mailed April 8, will ...