How clever. How clever. This American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network director starts out talking about teens smoking unflavored cigarettes, then they smoothly slip into talking about banning flavored "tobacco" products. (Mostly about nicotine products that don’t even contain tobacco.) out talking about teens smoking unflavored cigarettes, then they smoothly slip into talking about banning flavored "tobacco" products. (Mostly about nicotine products that don’t even contain tobacco.)
In 1999, before even flavored cigarettes were a thing, Vermont’s High School smoking rate was 33%. That’s not a typo–33% of high school teens in Vermont were smoking without ever trying cotton candy or fruit punch-flavored tobacco.
In 2009, the year that flavored cigarettes were banned by Congress, and before flavored vapor products were widely available, the smoking rate was down to 16%.
When teens started discovering vape “flavors” in 2015 it was at 11%. Now it's at 6.9%. Hmm. It seems nearly 5X more teens smoked cigarettes before flavored “tobacco” existed than they do now. How does ACS explain that?
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