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Welcome to New Yorkers Against Flavored Tobacco.

TO JOIN THE COALITION CLICK HERE Already a coalition member? Here are two things you can do right now to help: Send a letter on your organizations letterhead to the state legislative leaders. Please send a copy of your letter to Theresa.Tolokonsy@cancer.org at ACS CAN or fax it to 518-449-7283. Click here to download a sample letter Please take ve minutes right now to send a simple email as an individual to your own state senator and state assembly member in support of the proposed avored tobacco restriction Click here to send an email to your state legislators BACKGROUND In 2009, Congress enacted the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act banning the use of avors other than menthol in cigarettes. However, other tobacco products, including "little cigars" (cigarettes wrapped in paper containing tobacco), snuff and other smokeless tobacco products were not included in the prohibition. We believe that action should be taken to correct this oversight. THE PROBLEM Tobacco avorings are intended to mask from tobacco product users, particularly new users, the harsh, toxic properties of tobacco smoke and spit tobacco. In addition to mint, Skoal today is sold in peach, cherry, apple, vanilla and berry avors. The US Smokeless Tobacco's marketing campaign has been tremendously successful, more than

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doubling the prevalence of snuff use among adult males, and among males 18 to 24, increasing it more than six-fold. By 2008, The Centers for Disease Control reported that 13% of male high school students in the U.S. used smokeless tobacco. If anything, cigars, especially "little cigars," provide even more egregious examples of this marketing strategy. Swisher Sweets come in cherry, strawberry, peach and grape avors. Captain Black little cigars are sold in "Peach Rum," "Tahitian Cherry," and "Madagascar Vanilla" varieties. And then there's HBI International, which produces wrappers in more than 30 avors including Milk Chocolate, Absinthe, Tequila, Peaches & Cream, Mango, Bubblegum and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. ACTION NEEDED Despite the federal ban on avored cigarettes, avored cigars and smokeless tobacco products continue to attract new young, users. A restriction to adult-stores only for the sale of all avored tobacco is a much-needed step to protect children and to reduce their risk of nicotine addiction and the subsequent lethal effects of tobacco. New York City has enacted a restriction, which was recently upheld by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. ACS CAN strongly is supportive of Assembly Bill 1179, sponsored by New York State Assemblywoman Amy Paulin. This legislation seeks to enact similar restrictions to the New York City ban. By restricting the sale of about 25 percent of cigars and less than 20 percent of moist smokeless tobacco to adult-only tobacco shops, New York would reduce children's access to the avored varieties that most appeal to them, without denying them to adults. TAKE ACTION ACS CAN has launched the New Yorkers against Flavored Tobacco Coalition - a grassroots mobilization effort designed to put pressure on state elected ofcials to enact this crucial legislation. We are seeking as many organizations as possible to make their voices heard with their elected ofcial and to educate others within the community about this deceptive tobacco marketing campaign. To join us in this ght, please click below. We will keep you apprised of our legislative campaign activities, media and advocacy efforts as well as local activities. JOIN THE COALITION SEND AN EMAIL TO YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS DOWNLOAD FACT SHEET DOWNLOAD CALL IN FLYER

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