Menthol Cigarettes Attract Young Smokers

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Menthol Cigarettes Attract Young Smokers
In 2009,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the President signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. The Tobacco Control Act gives the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) right to control the production, advertisement and distribution of tobacco products to protect public health and to decrease tobacco consumption among children and adult people.
“This organization is created to prevent our children from becoming the future generation of Americans to die early from smoking related diseases. Also anti-smoking laws may stop our children from becoming addicted to nicotine for their whole lives,” stated, Dr. Howard Koh,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], assistant secretary for Health Human Services.
The first provision of the given law took effect in September 2009 and prohibited flavored cigarettes. This ban excluded menthol cigarettes and didn’t cover other type of flavored tobacco products as for instance,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], cigars and hookah.
Menthol makes the taste of cigarettes even more savory to new smokers by stimulating cold receptors and lessening the discomfort associated with smoking. That is why menthol cigarettes are disproportionately smoked by teenagers. Approximately half of the young smokers give preference to menthol tobacco products, in comparison to less than one-third of smokers over the age of 25. 60% of smokers in secondary school smoke menthol cigarettes; this is the highest rate among all age classes.
Menthol is not simply a flavoring. The cooling taste of menthol and menthol’s sensory attributes have proved to have positive influences on properties associated with smoking, including degree of satisfaction,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], perceived smoothness and irritation.