In this month's Artifact, we showcase how the advertising was still eye catching when it came to the Kool Cigarettes Promo Mailer.

California’s attorney general is warning two tobacco companies that their new cigarettes appear to violate a state ban on most flavored tobacco products that was upheld by voters last year. Attorney ...

Slidell police are trying to identify this man, who is suspected of stealing cartons of Kool cigarettes from stores in Slidell and elsewhere. (Slidell P.D.) Slidell police are asking for the public's ...

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 ...

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta has issued warnings to two tobacco companies, stating that they may be in violation of the state’s ban on flavored products, a measure upheld by nearly two-thirds of ...

The packaging on Kool brand's "non-menthol" cigarettes and its existing menthols are very similar. Anti-smoking activists argue this is a way to get around any ban on menthol cigarettes by appealing ...

Half a century ago, faced with broadcast advertising bans stemming from overwhelming evidence of the harms of smoking, the tobacco industry used menthol cigarettes to secure new markets among Black ...