If there's a number that tends to keep Dave Margolius up at night, it might be 35. Thirty-five percent of Clevelanders smoke tobacco products, which is one of the highest rates in the country, by a large margin.
The city has one of the highest smoking rates in the country, and one that disproportionately affects Black residents. The Director of Cleveland's Department of Public Health sees an obvious problem with a clear remedy
, a massive collection of nonprofits, hospitals, political bodies and community development corporations that are rallying around one main goal: to end the marketing and sale of flavored tobacco products in Cleveland. That is, by convincing City Council to pass the appropriate legislation. That is to say, in Council's mind, taking away tobacco products would carve a financial hole in the 618 retailers, the gas stations and corner stores, that rely on sales of Newports and Elfbar vapes. It's what seemed to be the primary concern of council members in February when legislation in favor of the ban was discussed. The result, Margolius expected: Hundreds of tobacco lobbyists, retailers and storeowners called or e-mailed Council warning of the potentially grave loss.
Former Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman talked extensively at the event about both his own struggle quitting smoking—"With every puff, I was dying," he recalled—and his mayoral duty, he said, to outlaw flavored tobacco in his own city. Coleman helped orchestrate a massive data operation that concluded vape sellers were clustered, by chance or by intention, around schools in Black neighborhoods. The data was obvious for Coleman.
At a recent service, Minor, who often inserts political asides along lessons from the New Testament, brought up his thoughts on tobacco targeting, often leaning into emotional highs about its lethality in the Black community.
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