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Flavored <br />Tobacco Products <br />WHAT TYPES OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS ARE FLAVORED? <br />Flavored tobacco products include cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, <br />blunt wraps, electronic cigarettes, and shisha, the tobacco used in hookah. <br />These products help the tobacco industry get around the FDA’s 2009 ban of <br />cigarettes with flavors other than menthol.1 Menthol is the only flavor allowed <br />in cigarettes. <br />E-cigarettes, also known as vapes, come in a variety of youth-friendly <br />flavors. JUUL, the most popular e-cigarette on the market, resembles a USB <br />flash drive. These devices deliver a high dose of nicotine with a modern <br />design that is easy to conceal.2 <br />WHAT ARE SOME COMMON FLAVORS USED IN TOBACCO <br />PRODUCTS? <br />Cigars, chewing tobacco, blunt wraps, vapes and shisha are sold in fruit, <br />candy, dessert and novelty flavors. Popular flavors include chocolate, <br />piña colada, apple, grape, berry, cotton candy, bubble gum, mango, mint/ <br />wintergreen and menthol. The same flavorings used in tobacco products are <br />also used in candy and Kool-Aid drink mixes.3 <br />Menthol flavored tobacco is easier to start and harder to quit.4 Tobacco <br />companies add menthol to tobacco products to cool the throat and make <br />them taste better. <br />WHO USES FLAVORED TOBACCO PRODUCTS? <br />The tobacco industry uses flavored tobacco to attract the next generation <br />of smokers.5 Young people are much more likely to use flavored tobacco <br />products than adults.6 In fact, 80 percent of youth who use tobacco use <br />fruit, candy or menthol flavored tobacco.7 Studies show that young people <br />perceive flavored tobacco products as tasting better and being safer than <br />unflavored products, even though they are just as dangerous and addictive.8 <br />Disposable vapes like these were not <br />regulated by the U.S Government when it <br />instituted restrictions on flavored vapes in <br />February 2020. <br />Cheap cigars come in bright packages and a wide variety of flavors, such as chocolate, grape, <br />peach, strawberry, blueberry, tropical fusion and pineapple, that appeal to youth. <br />JUUL is still the top-selling e-cigarette brand <br />despite the company stopping sales of some <br />flavored pods, such as cool cucumber and <br />mango. JUUL and other brands that use <br />disposable pods are prohibited by the federal <br />government from selling pods in flavors other <br />than tobacco, mint and menthol. <br />Suorin is a popular e-cigarette among youth <br />because of the many available flavors.These <br />devices are refillable and are not regulated by <br />the federal government.