Tobacco Free Florida: 31 Flavors

Big Tobacco has long denied that flavored tobacco products are meant to target youth. Yet, a 2008 poll found that double the amount of kids between the ages of 12 and 17 had seen a flavored tobacco ad or product compared to adults. Another study found that 17-year-old smokers are three times as likely to choose a flavored product compared to smokers over the age of 25.

Not only are flavored products more attractive to young people, these products make it easier for new tobacco users to start by masking the unpleasant flavor of regular tobacco. Evidence shows that young people believe flavored tobacco products, like bidis and hookahs, are safer than unflavored tobacco products. This is a dangerous misconception.

The good news: The production and marketing of candy and fruit-flavored cigarettes was banned by the FDA in 2009 as part of a national effort to reduce smoking in America.

The bad news: The ban exempts menthol cigarettes and flavored tobacco products other than cigarettes, like chewing tobacco, dip, snuff, Snus, bidis, cigarillos and hookah. And, while Big Tobacco continues to sweeten its products, tobacco use remains the number one cause of preventable death in Florida.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Tobacco Free Florida
• Big Tobacco
• youth prevention
• flavored tobacco

[southerncountryboy8]

What the fuck? Leave tobacco alone and let people live their lives the way they want to. If a grown person wants to dip or smoke, who gives a shit? I dont... cause it's their choice. It's a free country, or its supposed to be.....

[9thstreetbrandt]

i want bubble gum flavored cigs!! yum!

[bzterp]

I personally think they're targeting adults who like flavors... shocking.

[deathofsmokey]

Who funds this bullshit?