It's all the way at the bottom of the article, but here it is: "Ban flavoring in cigarettes, including strawberry, grape, orange, clove, cinnamon and vanilla."
The reason is generally cited as these are aimed at children. But anybody familiar with the advertising and packaging of these products knows that they're clearly not. Here's a sample:
I've only seen one flavor that was arguably child friendly, and that was "purple." I can't find any information about it on the internet, but you'll have to take my word that there was a half naked girl on the package, again clearly not child aimed advertisements. I think a more useful ban would be on those candy cigarettes or something like that, or maybe reducing foreign chemical content in the cigarettes to make them harder to smoke and less child-friendly. This reaction is probably in part due to what people have been calling a reverse nicotine addiction that's way more prominent in urban areas. Here, people have observed that kids get addicted to cigarettes without smoking them, by getting addicted to the tobacco in blunts first and then cigarettes in turn. I can personally attest to this effect, but the flavor is not the catch. I think you'd find that the vast majority of buyers are partial to unflavored products anyway, especially initially.
i do believe you are wrong. u showed the blunt wraps that are not directly aimed at kids. but what about sour apple, peach cobbler, cinnamon, PB and J anomg many others. i have tried some of them just because they look/taste like candy.
ReplyDeletebut how old are you - i assume you're not a kid just an impressionable adult? real children aren't shopping for flavored tobacco products they're looking for actual candy that they can eat. i've never seen a pb&j blunt wrap which sounds real nasty but sour apple, peach cobbler, and cinnamon can also be aimed at adults. hookah tobacco comes in fruity flavors and noone's accusing that of being aimed at children - if anything should be banned it's candy cigarettes, the kind you can actually eat that they sell at ice cream trucks
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