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3/5/2025 <br />3 <br />Commercial Tobacco is Still a Problem. <br />In Minnesota, one in seven 11th graders uses e- <br />cigarettes, and 90 percent of those students use <br />flavored e-cigarettes. <br />The tobacco industry targets Black, <br />LGBTQ+,American Indians and young people <br />and spends more than $100 million a year <br />marketing their products in Minnesota. <br />Commercial tobacco use sets kids up for a <br />lifetime of nicotine addiction and serious health <br />conditions like heart disease and cancer. <br />All Minnesotan <br />s Pay the Price for Tobacco's Harm. <br />Commercial tobacco use remains the leading <br />cause of preventable death and disease, taking <br />the lives of more than 6,300 Minnesotans each <br />year. <br />Smoking costs the state over $9 billion a year: <br />more than $4.7 billion in excess health care costs <br />and $4.7 billion in lost productivity. <br />Every time Big Tobacco addicts another generation of <br />kids to smoking, they put all taxpayers on the hook <br />for billions of dollars in healthcare costs to treat <br />tobacco-related diseases. <br />21