In a lengthy deposition videotaped a few weeks before she died of lung cancer, Marie Evans recalled getting free sample packs of Newport cigarettes starting when she was 9. Glamorous women dressed in the colors of the Newport package handed them out at the housing project where Evans grew up in Bost
Marie Evans, a high-school dropout who went on to get her GED and an associate's degree, lived to see her son graduate not only from Boston Latin but from Harvard Law School. She died at age 54 in 2002. Her son turns 41 next week.
More than a half-century since Marie Evans first collected free Newports, tobacco companies continue to market menthol cigarettes more heavily to blacks and other minorities in Boston, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health reported last summer in the American Journal of Health Promoti
