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6B | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2021 | SIUSLAW NEWS Talk To Your Kids About The Dangers Of Flavored Tobacco (NAPSI)—After a year and a half of remote learning and social dis- tancing, kids are back to socializing after school and between classes. A return to school also means kids are once again exposed to the dan- gers of vaping and fl avored tobacco products, which could worsen with a return to in-person learning. The Problem The tobacco industry knows fl avored tobacco is highly addic- tive—and that’s why it targets kids. Among high school kids in Califor- nia, 96% of teens who vape use fl avored products. By giving vapes and smokeless tobacco products such kid-friendly fl avors as Blue Razz, Pegasus Milk, and Menthol Freeze, the tobacco industry falsely markets them as less harmful than cigarettes. Flavors might mask the harsh taste of tobacco but they don’t hide the toxic chemicals that can dam- age lungs and the nicotine that is poisonous to developing brains. Nicotine addiction is especially dangerous for kids. It rewires the brain to crave more of it, creating nicotine withdrawal symptoms in- cluding headaches, mood swings and the inability to concentrate. It’s possible to create a better, tobacco-free future in California. You can start by talking to your kids about the dangers of fl avored tobacco. Nicotine even changes the way connections form in the brain and can also interfere with attention and learning. Big Tobacco understands these harms, yet it still uses fl avored products to target youth to turn them into lifetime addicts. Many vape brands now use a highly con- centrated form of nicotine called nicotine salts that’s engineered for vaping. These ‘salts’ let higher con- centrations be inhaled more easily, and absorbed more quickly, than Graphic Searchers Please submit your entry for a chance to win a gift certifi cate: By E-mail Only regular nicotine—addicting kids even faster. The tobacco industry also ex- periments with new ways to push nicotine onto youth. In rural com- munities, it markets smokeless tobacco called chew, and snus—a new product that’s a smokeless tobacco pouch. More than 80% of youth ages 12 to 17 who have ever used snus indicated that the fi rst type of the product they used was fl avored. The industry markets these prod- ucts, particularly to young men, by showcasing images of rugged cowboys, hunters, and race-car drivers—presenting tobacco use as a rite of passage. This specifi c tar- geting may explain why students at rural and town schools have more than double the rates of smokeless tobacco use as those in city or sub- urban schools. The Good News The rate of teens in California who want to quit vaping doubled from 2018 to 2020, and the ma- jority of California teens believe their close friends view vape use negatively. 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