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Health Rewind: Big Push for African-Americans in the South to Get Health Care

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Still Not Feeling It

BET Wire: Obamacare Is as Unpopular as Ever

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CVS Stops Selling Cigarettes

Health Rewind: CVS to Stop Selling Tobacco in Stores Nationwide

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Report: US Adult Smoking Rate Dips to 18 Percent

Awareness campaigns and tobacco taxes may be why.
06/18/2013
In Good Hands - 80.5 percent: percentage of Blacks that were covered by health insurance during all or part of 2011. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

7 Steps to a Healthy Heart

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Black Children Who Live in Housing Projects More Likely to Smoke

Stressful and traumatic environment can contribute.
07/17/2012
Alabama State University to Implement No Smoking Policy

Does Discrimination Cause People to Smoke?

Blacks account for 12 percent of adult smokers in U.S.
03/26/2012
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African Billionaires

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A Tobacco-Free Obama Scolds Cigarette Manufacturers

The president admits that quitting smoking is hard.
11/18/2011