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Robert Jackler is a professor at Stanford and expert on tobacco marketing. and Canada have removed menthol from their markets. In fact, regulators all around the world are turning against flavored tobacco.

Last month, the agency rejected its first menthol e-cigarette product. The FDA is undergoing extensive review of all e-cigarette products and is requiring approval for them to remain on the market. NOGUCHI: Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., have already adopted measures like California's. MYERS: The overwhelming size of the California vote, I think, will send a message to other states and hopefully to the Food and Drug Administration. He says California's ban will hamper the tobacco industry's ability to market to young people and the Black community, which he says have been disproportionately targeted by the marketing of flavored products. NOGUCHI: Myers is president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Eighty-five percent of kids who use e-cigarettes use flavored e-cigarettes. Matt Myers says tobacco flavors like strawberry cheesecake and cotton candy introduced a new generation to nicotine. Then the arrival and marketing of vaping reversed that. Tobacco use fell rapidly from over a third of teens to about 5%. For several years around 2010, young people had largely stopped smoking. YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE: The state's flavor ban includes e-cigarettes, which have skyrocketed in popularity among teenagers. NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports, anti-smoking advocates hope more states and federal regulators will follow. Soto-Barra said that NPR transcripts may contain minor or significant errors, ranging from the use of "ex-patriot" instead of "expatriate." In another example, a transcriber mistakenly quoted filmmaker John Waters as saying of former Manson follower Leslie Van Houten: "She's a yuppie," when what he really said was, "She's not a yuppie.Californians this week voted to uphold the state's ban on all flavored tobacco products. If you notice a spelling or typographical error, please email where it can be corrected. But since there is a quick turn-around time on transcripts, mistakes can occur. Keep in mind transcript coordinators do their best to catch and correct errors on the text.
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