I am more concerned about flavored tobacco products because tobacco is one of the most harmful items. Tobacco can cause lung cancer which kills many people each year.

Andrew B

Danville

They are getting younger people to notice and find appealing.

Aaliyah H

St. Johnsbury

Flavored tobacco products are more appealing to kids and I believe are being marketed to kids . They are being initiated and tobacco is highly addictive.

Cheryl C

W. Danville

I am concerned about flavored tobacco because I think it is a VERY selfish tactic that big companies are using just to make money. It is so cruel to be advertising to our youth to smoke to smoke even though these big companies probably know that they kill people.

Jacob B

St. Johnsbury

I am very angry about how companies are making little kids smoke. This is crazy and upsetting. I am concerned that some people I know could die because of these products.

Sophia B

St. Johnsbury

They appeal to younger children, the health issues that will arise later in life because they are ingesting actual chemicals. The need to fit in by engaging in a behavior that is detrimental to their health.

Trish Bennett

Derby

So many kids are attracted to these flavors because they taste good. Kids do not understand the real effects of this.

Josee Berry

Canaan

Too many of my sons friends vaping.

Donna L

Canaan

Health concerns and it may lead to other negative behaviors.

Julie Giroux

Canaan

There is an enticement to vape because it is glamorized!

Kirsten Lyons

Canaan

The flavors / sweet smells give the false impression that they are not bad for you like tobacco.

Sharon Belleville

05903

Not only am I concerned that tobacco producers are making products that taste good to kids, but they put them in fun packaging to attract children.

Traci Bartlett

East Dover

I lost my grandfather at a very young age do to a smoking related illnesses and I don’t want my teenaged boys, or any youth to be enticed into getting hooked.

Brande Pike

East Dover

Our children have learned that smoking cigarettes is not okay. It’s a shame that this wonderful movement might be reversed because of profit and marketing.

Magdaline V

East Dummerston

I oppose flavored products because of the level of exposure and use by youth.

Casey M

Putney

Flavored tobacco encourages children to use tobacco products. Adults don’t usually even like flavored products!

Nathan Rupard

Brattleboro

I am concerned about flavored tobacco products because when it tempts children to try it, it may cause an addiction that can create much conflict between friends and family. Not only does tobacco destroy your lungs, but it can also destroy relationships.

Eben W

Brattleboro

Why would anything like this be considered anything else but a target for kids and to get kids interested in smoking?

Leo S

Wilmington

Everyone I know has these e-cigarettes called Juuls and I’m sure in the long run these are going to hurt everyone.

Damian D

Brattleboro

Flavored tobacco makes people more attracted to it. The fruity flavors may seem to taste good and make people want it more. It targets children and is very bad. It is a trick.

Lexie C

Spofford

They aren’t thought of as much of a threat by young people.

Alexandra M

Brattleboro

I am against flavoring tobacco products because it makes them more attractive. My mom used to smoke then she got breast cancer so she had to quit. She is starting to get back into it and flavoring the products is not helping our problem.

Emma O

Bennington

I just think it’s scary that whenever I go to the math hallway bathroom it smells like strawberry cheesecake. Most (if not all) kids I know that use tobacco products, especially e-cigarettes and Juuls, don’t know that they are unsafe and harmful.

Lucy P

Brattleboro

Our kids deserve better than being used by businesses to get them addicted to nicotine.

Jeannie Hodsden

Bellows Falls

I have read many articles about the poisons that are in the juice, the nicotine, the brain damage , the lung damage. It is the same thing as drinking a can of drano for plumbing purposes. Our children are at risk.

Annette Spaulding

Rocking

Leave our kids alone!

Deb wW

Brattleboro

Encouraging kids to smoke a vape is so wrong!!! I’m a smoker of 40+ years and it’s impossible to quit!

Katy Valdez

St. Johnsbury

I am concerned because many of my students do not think flavored tobacco or tobacco in general is a concern.

Emily Gunn

Rutland

As a concerned parent, I feel all tobacco products and especially flavored/candied tobacco is underhanded and unacceptable.

Tina Martin

Woodstock

I know a lot of people who began vaping because of the flavors and I don’t want to see the youth of my state being misled into addiction.

Nickolas Stapleton

Perkinsville

Please don’t have these products where my grandchildren can see them in the stores

Efstathiou Laura

Windsor

I am super concerned about flavored tobacco products – especially ecigs. It is awful that kids are being marketed to like that.

Beth Haysleti

Bethel

It encourages students to start smoking.

Pat Gelo

Derby

As a new parent, I do not want my boys to have to grow up surrounded by products that are so bad for their health.

Sara Zaino

Peru

It’s causing all kinds of illness and that’s killing all kinds of people.

Kynzie Smith

Springfield

Because I feel these products are marketed to young children who don’t understand the health risk of said product.

Rosie DeCamp

Bellows Falls

Grooming teens as tobacco users is wrong.

Andy Jackins

Townshend

They encourage kids to try deadly tobacco products.

Julie Sweet

Swanton

I’m concerned about flavors that appeal to kids. I’m also concerned about advertising to kids and the kids thinking vaping is cool.

Jeannete Boos

Wilmington

I don’t like that kids are getting addicted at a young age!

Rosie Senna

Burlington

They are a gateway to addiction and are being marketed to youth.

Cheryl Chandler

West Danville

Tobacco can damage your lungs and over time make it hard to breath.

Madison Ashford

Williamstown

People are unaware that the effects are of flavored tobacco are the same as smoking or chewing tobacco.

Amra Jusupovu

Burlington

Flavored tobacco products provide an easy pathway to possible lifelong addiction for our kids to tobacco use.

Karen Avery

West Dover

By making flavored tobacco products attractive to young people – they get hooked at an early age, and it is very hard to quit! Oral cancer is a very real concern.

Rhea Clark

Wilmington

People think vaping is healthier than smoking, so they think it’s okay.

Meredith Pelton

Springfield

The 1 percent makes Billions off of the disease & sales of all carcinogenic products-tobacco; dairy; meat; food additives; RoundUp & other crop additives; ad Infinitum! Please STOP poisoning the people, children, water, animals & planet!

Adam Steinberg

Our youth are our greatest resource. Why risk their lives when older and future generations need a future with healthy generation?

Wendy Schwarz

Smoking causes so many life altering ( mouth cancer ) and life ending casualties ( lung cancer, liver distruction) and is so tragically addictive. I have a son who is a smoker and cannot quit even though his liver count was too high.

Pamela

It is extremely addictive. It causes cancer and horrible breathing problems. I was a nurse for 44 years. I saw many who couldn’t quit because of the addiction to nicotine.

Darcy Picucci

Another not so subtle way the tobacco industry seeks to make a profit on the backs of our youth at the expense of their and our collective health.

Janet Young

We have lost several family members to smoking related cancer and heart issue.

M H

Young folks with breathing problems (asthma, prone to colds, etc) could have serious health issues if using eCigs….they will be hard to treat, and could do life-long damage to lungs….

Gretchen Hammer

It may be cliche, but the youth are our future. Keep in mind also that vaping is not a safe alternative either. Ingesting liquid vapor into the lungs can and in some cases have caused pneumonia, which can be fatal.

Robert Messier

To stop ? Cancer and Death

James Peterson

Flavor tobacco, any tobacco will damage your lungs and other parts of your body! Don’t smoke or chew!

Gypsy Loomis

Dont use tobacco products at all cancer loss of lung strength lip cancer gum cancer stained fingers all the expense use your brains due the math c’mon young people dont use send a message to all the tobacco companies in more killing our citizens and it starts now

Alfred Livingstone III

Its one nasty habit bad for you

M Wright

I have been smoking tobacco for 51 years and I can’t stop. It is a horrible addiction, so kids quit before you become like me.

Kendra Parkington

Way too many kids under the age to smoke are finding ways to bend the rules in order to purchase tobacco products. The advertising is not totally accurate and the tobacco suppliers bend the laws in order to be within the law.

Harold Harvey

One of every two people who use any form of tobacco will die of a tobacco related disease. I think that anyone who sees evil and does nothing to stop it is as guilty as one who creates the evil.

Vaclav Reznicek

Because there are too many people with cancer

Ruth Smith

There is nothing good about smoking. Its bad enough plain and to think about adding flavors to more people addicted is unsure.

Laurie Miner

By smoking it will effect your lungs and other body parts at a young age, people are unaware of this as well.

Gypsy Loomis

My mother died when she was 41 my father when he was 50. They both smoked heavily and had strokes. I have diminished lung capacity because when I was a child parents didn’t feel it was that important not to smoke while holding a baby.

Scott Bogardus

It’s a habit that can kill, causes to many health problems.

Heidi Warner

I support protecting our youth because I am a 50 yr. Smoker and if you stop when you’re younger, the chances of dying the way I am will be diminished greatly.

Caroltn Rossi

It’s difficult to watch smoker friends struggle with health issues, especially when they realize their own choices have brought them to the discomfort they are experiencing. Fresh air for ALL to breathe is also lost.

Lucia Nye Button

I am opposed to tobacco advertising of any kind. The product is a proven killer

Gene Morrison

It isn’t something they need in their lives

Joseph madore

I started smoking when I was 12. Young people are vulnerable to anything they can be convinced is cool or desirable. It was very hard to quit. It took me 5 years and many tries to make it, that was 36 years ago. I know many recovering addicts who can’t quit tobacco. I think it is the hardest addiction to break.

dianne richardson

Because I was addicted by child targeting at 15. Full blown COPD at 52

Keith Capron

Teens don’t realize the ramifications of these products. Those who manufacture them do and should be held accountable. We should be making it blatantly obvious what the risks are and stop hiding behind flavors that are meant to trick the young mind into addiction.

Rebekah Alger

My Grandmother died from COPD caused from having smoked for most of her life, as did my Step – Dad who passed away from lung cancer from smoking.. its time to STOP encouraging kids to take up a potential death sentence!

Tammie DeGrasse Stammers

My husband,father of four,grandfather to 6 is a wonderful man who is end stage copd and is dying because of tobacco .He started smoking when he was 10 Years old.This is something no family should ever have to go through.We are sad beyond words!

Merri Paquin

Health issues for them and others around them. Asthma, Lung cancer, Mouth cancer, Ear infections for children etc.

Melba Ferland

All Tobacco products and flavored vapor products are so addictive, expensive and dangerous to everyones health. The numerous flavorings and “Fad” gimmicks are so enticing to our youth. I believe it can lead to lifetime medical concerns and/or complications and definitely lifetime addictions.

Valerie M. Cooper

Tobacco addiction keeps poor people poor.

With held

Because mouth cancer and lung cancer kills!! As adults/parents we need to make it real! Show our kids what a picture of mouth cancer looks like! They deserve a healthy future and the smoking effects old and young!! Even our pets!!

Anne nartowicz

Tobacco use is addictive, expensive and can lead to lung or gum cancer whether it’s flavored or not. It’s irresponsible to entice youth with flavored tobacco products.

Beth McKinney

Big Tobacco is praying on our kids by using flavored tobacco. We would protect them from other types of predators, so how is this any different. Our children are the future do something!

Alicia Barrow

it is very unhealthy

juanita jean corlis

I quit smoking 2014 and I still have trouble breathing. I have COPD stage 2. I am on a inhaler. I have to take breaks going up stairs and up hills. I smoked for a very long time 45 years. That’s how addicting cigarettes are. E-cigarette are just as bad, they cause pop corn lungs. I smoke no more. It isn’t good for anyone, Adults or CHILDREN.

Gypsy Loomis

I was a smoker for many years…my young Grand-daughters asked me if I loved them enough to quit. I did!

Barbara Ayers

I am an ex smoker and the habit is disgusting. Now I smell the smoke and makes me nauseated . The risk of cancer will last you all your life. If you believed life is beautiful and breath it in with all its potential do not screw it up, do not smoke.

Maria V Thetford ( certified ex smoker )

Its a nasty habitat and takes so much away from you breathing smelling etc

Eden

It’s unhealthy, expensive and advertising should not be trying to attract them to the product! Children have enough bad influences in the world today

Cynthia Neuenfeldt

it is unhealthy addiction and can cause many cancers

juanita

Because it is a very nasty hard to quit habit that will cause death in the sense of cancer!!!!

Tammy santamore

I support protecting them because I quit and its been a year. I want my kids to be healthy.

Eden Tenney

Because the youth are our future

Sarah wells

So many different chemicals going into their lungs they have organs not even fully developed. It smells, it causes health issues, and it is marketed to our children who should be out enjoying life, not smoking to die. Batteries also blow up and cause serious injury!

Tamara Hill

My father began smoking at age 13. He smoked all his life. He died at age 51.

Leslie Fry

We know about the evils of tobacco manufacturers and the health hazards they knowingly surpressed. We know about the addictiveness of nicotine and the poisonousness of the other additives. It is a NO WIN situation for youth. The youth need protection from the powerful pushers whose only agenda is to get rich.

Nancy F.