^ Newports are really strong mentholated cigarettes. They are really common amongst African-Americans, and have been called "niggerettes" before. That being said, I love them.
I'm white and smoke newports and menthols so it kind of bothers me too. The thing is that the black population in most major US cities is segregated (both by choice and not by choice in multiple ways). Of course, if everyone around you smokes newports growing up, then you probably will too.
It's not only black people that smoke them, but if you're black, from a really dense urban city (I'm from NYC and went to HS in the Bronx), from a bad neighborhood, etc, you probably smoke newports.
i miss the old djarum's. why the fuck did they ban them?