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Opinion: It’s time to eliminate all flavored cigarettes, not just the electronic kind

In considering a ban on flavored e-cigarettes, government and public health leaders must not repeat the same mistake they made a decade ago when they allowed combustible menthol cigarettes to…
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The unprecedented rise in youth vaping is a pressing public health challenge. More than one-quarter of all high school students now use e-cigarettes.

Reducing e-cigarette use among youths is critical to preventing another generation of kids from becoming addicted to nicotine. We applaud efforts to prohibit the sale of menthol-, mint-, candy-, and fruit-flavored e-cigarettes. But government and public health leaders must not repeat the same

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