Posted on 10/24/2013 6:55:06 PM PDT by Drango
(CNN) -- Use of tobacco in flavors like Dreamsicle and chocolate mint may be a growing problem among teenagers, according to a Centers for Disease Control report.
More than two out of every five middle- and high-school students who smoke report using flavored little cigars or flavored cigarettes, according to the report. And the bigger concern may be that the majority of the kids who smoke the flavored cigars -- some 60% -- say they don't plan to quit anytime soon (compared to 49% of all cigar smokers).
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"Historically what we know from other studies is that flavors can mask the harshness and taste of tobacco, particularly for a new person who has not smoked regularly and finds it difficult to handle," said the CDC's Dr. Tim McAfee, director of the Office on Smoking and Health. "Flavoring makes it easier to use and more appealing to youth."
Cigars have become increasingly popular in the last couple of decades. Sales were up 240% from 1997 to 2007, according to the CDC. Flavored cigars account for 80% of those sales.
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The problem is, studies show, kids' experimentation with tobacco often turns into a lifelong habit. Some 88% of adults who smoke say they started smoking by the age of 18, according to the CDC.
~ The little cigars are really "kissing cousins" to cigarettes, McAfee said, and they resemble cigarettes when sold in a pack. They are similar in size and shape and have filters like cigarettes.
The difference is little cigars are wrapped in leaf tobacco or another tobacco product. Cigarettes are wrapped in paper or some other non-tobacco substance.
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Now that IS FUNNY! LOL
Apparently she was a cousin on BOTH sides of the family.
Yes, I just saw that.
Still, the wider point remains that Drango is just a closet statist.
Einstein married Elsa Löwenthal on 2 June 1919, after having had a relationship with her since 1912. She was his first cousin maternally and his second cousin paternally. In 1933, they emigrated to the United States. In 1935, Elsa Einstein was diagnosed with heart and kidney problems and died in December 1936.
/johnny
Well, just damn! that ruins my whole argument!
I guess I have to capitulate to the smoke nazis now. /s
He has control issues which is why I posted the C. S. Lewis quote in 55.
Maybe she should be.
I don’t like all this smugness on the streets displayed in front of the childrens!
They are becoming little tyrants due to the ENABLERS.
I don’t mind being called a statist by those who pimp death or addiction.
Ahh..
I assumed it was a She, because of the Heroine on his homepage that violently physically assaults the smoker, claiming that they cough up BLACK Phlegm.
I pimp nothing. I defend freedom.
You admit to being a statist.
I say Jim should give you the Zot, but that is his prerogative.
By the way, no one gets out of this alive.
I think a “he” but I’ve never asked as they have violent control issues. Their cartoon is very liberal minded.
/johnny
It is pure propaganda.
No one says smoking is good for you, but it is propaganda to act as if it is the original sin.
I read that Mr. Einstein didn’t speak with ease til he was almost four. I’m sure der Vater und Mutter were verklempt with joy when he started to chatter as kidsdo.
The self-righteous love being self-righteous. It makes them feel better about themselves.
Actually I believe you are obligated under law to pay taxes on that even if you raised it for personal consumption.
That is the way the revnooers treat fuel.
TAX TAX TAX gotta pay that Federal TAX.
After all, It is for the childrens.
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