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Flavor Has Nothing To Do With It
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We see this on occasion -- a politician, in this case a San Francisco supervisor, announces a proposal for a ban on menthol and flavored cigarettes, claiming that they're targeting kids and African-Americans and LGBTQ people -- and it rarely goes anywhere, maybe because the premise is flawed. Kids don't start smoking because of the flavors. They start because they think it makes them look cool like their older siblings or the upperclassmen or the neighborhood "elite," or because their parents smoke. They might prefer the flavors once they've started, but the flavors are as much of an enticement as Joe Camel, which is to say they're not. (City News Service via San Francisco Chronicle)
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