> factor. Nobody or nothing forces people to smoke or
> bans them from buying healthy food.
Yeah, but what did the produce look like the last time you shopped at a grocery store in a mostly minority neighborhood? It's almost always lousy; certainly not of the caliber you'll get at, say, Whole Foods. Gimme a bag of Doritos over a wilted iceberg lettuce salad any day.
Secondly, certain unhealthy products are targeted specifically at black consumers. Two come immediately to mind: menthol cigarettes (which are more addictive than regular cigarettes and maybe more dangerous) and malt liquor and fortified wine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD_20/20
-WD