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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Should youths be "protected" from flavored tobacco?

Click on this link to read a guest column by Kisha Gaines in the Sarasota Herald Tribune (7/3/11) that defends a request by Sarasota leaders that vendors cease to market flavored tobacco products.  These products (like little cigars, hookah, and smokeless products) are combined with sweet fruity flavors and colorful packaging that, Gaines argues, have been demonstrated to appeal to young people.  Is a voluntary ban on selling such products the solution, or are there other less radical responses?  Or is the danger to the young so great that bold measures are called for?

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