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This chemical is what makes smoking, vaping, or other commercial tobacco use addictive.
What is nicotine?
The majority of youth who vape use products that have this kind of flavor.
What is fruit flavor?
Big Tobacco primarily targets this group with fruit, candy, and mint flavors.
What is young people?
Young people are more likely to become addicted to nicotine than adults because this organ hasn't matured yet.
What is the brain?
Politicians and other adult leaders want to hear from this group of people when it comes to vaping and nicotine use.
What are young people?
These suspiciously-named e-cigarettes are considered hazardous waste because they contain a non-removable lithium ion battery, nicotine, and heavy metals. Don't throw them away in the trash!
What are disposable vapes, also known as disposables?
This chemical is a highly addictive chemical found in the tobacco plant and created in labs, commonly used in cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and other tobacco products.
What is nicotine?
Big Tobacco knows that people who start smoking early in life are more likely to be lifelong users. Nearly 9 out of 10 adults who smoke cigarettes daily started smoking before they were this old
What is age 18?
Vaping nicotine can affect a person's mental health by worsening symptoms of anxiety, depression, and this, which comes when you are feeling overwhelmed.
What is stress?
One way to make your voice heard about an issue is to write one of these and have it published in a newspaper.
What is a letter to the editor?
People looking for a hit of nicotine without smoking, vaping, or chewing often use this product, most likely from the brand Zyn.
What are nicotine pouches?
In 2017, these two Minnesota cities were the first in the state to restrict the sale of menthol-flavored products to adult-only tobacco stores and liquor stores.
Hint: they are the biggest cities in Minnesota by population!
What are Minneapolis and Saint Paul?
These can no longer be advertised on TV or radio, but often appear in movies and TV shows.
What are cigarettes?
Billions of these are littered each year in the U.S., polluting natural habitats, waterways, and soil. They are the #1 form of litter.
What are cigarette butts?
Since the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act was passed in 2009, this federal agency is responsible for regulating commercial tobacco products.
What is the FDA?
These must be sold in packs, and have a minimum price in both St. Paul and Minneapolis.
What are cigarettes?
These products contain harmful chemicals like nicotine and formaldehyde, which can damage the lungs and increase the risk of cancer.
What are e-cigarettes?
How does the tobacco industry use social media to target teens?
What is social media influencers?
This is used to power vapes and can leach chemicals into the environment.
What is a lithium-ion battery?
What age does your brain fully develop?
What is mid-20s?
This commercial tobacco product is often associated with Middle Eastern and East African culture, and is quickly growing in popularity among young adults in America.
What is hookah?
Out of the 34 e-cigarettes that the FDA has authorized for sale in the U.S., which flavor has been authorized?
What is menthol?
How much did the tobacco industry spend on marketing in Minnesota in 2022?
What is $97.3 million
What are the 3 ways that vaping pollutes our planet?
What is hazardous waste, plastic waste, and e-waste?
What is it called when a commercial tobacco company tries to make it look like they're sustainable?
What is greenwashing?