Commercial Tobacco Products
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?
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?
This flavored additive has a cooling effect on the throat and makes smoking easier to start and harder to quit.
What is menthol?
Big Tobacco targets this group of people by sponsoring events like pride festivals, donating to AIDS research, and contributing to political campaigns for politicians who share this identity.
What is the LGBTQ+ community?
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?
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?
In 2009, the FDA banned all flavors except for menthol in this kind of commercial tobacco product. Today, the FDA is currently considering a menthol ban to prohibit ALL flavors in these products.
What are cigarettes?
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?
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?
If I try to influence a decision maker to vote a certain way, I am doing this, which is completely different from educating them.
What is lobbying?
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?
Out of the 23 e-cigarettes that the FDA has authorized for sale in the U.S., this many of them are flavored.
What is zero?
The tobacco industry has a long history of marketing menthol cigarettes to this community, and as a result, 85% of people from this community who smoke prefer menthols.
What is the Black community or African American community?
Exposure to this can increase your risk of heart disease, asthma, stroke, and lung cancer, even though you aren't the one smoking.
What is secondhand smoke?
This 3-part technique, which has a fishing-related name, is helpful for preparing your message before speaking to a lawmaker.
What is hook, line, and sinker?
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?
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?
When prices are high, less people use commercial tobacco. Since price is the most important factor affecting tobacco consumption, tobacco companies send these to consumers to encourage them to buy more.
What are coupons or price discounts?
The tobacco industry engages in this when they promote "green" initiatives without taking responsibility for their environmental impact or making efforts to become more sustainable.
What is greenwashing?
Thanks to social media, advocates can share their messages with a wide audience, and that includes lawmakers. State legislators mostly use this social media platform to communicate with constituents.
What is X (formerly known as Twitter)?