Flavoured Cigars in Baltimore, FDA Should Act Urgently

The proliferation of stores and conveniences selling cheap and flavoured cigars to mostly young African Americans is warisome. Authoprities concerned should act and do the right thing urgently to save lives of young people who stand the risk of being infected with respiratory related diseases in the future.

The fact that the cigars are cheap and flavoured worsen the matter, for instance, a three- pack of Good Times flavoured cigarillos at Everest Greenish Grocery, a brightly lit store on a faded corner of the city, costs 99 cents. This is definitely an attractive price for the store’s regulars who are mostly young, poor Africans Americans.
 

According  to Sabrina Tavernise, nothing is more popular than a chocolate-flavoured little cigar. They are displayed just above the Hershey bars along with their colourful cigarillo cousins — white grape, strawberry, pineapple and Da Bomb Blueberry.

We cannot afford to sit down and fold our arms pretending as if we don’t know what is going on. There are young Nigerians and other foreign Nationals in the U. S. that need to be monitored and guided against smoking because of its great danger.

Matthew L. Myers, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids said, "We shouldn’t need 40 years of study to figure out that chocolate- and grape-flavoured cigars are being smoked by young people,”

Gregory N. Connolly, director,Center for Global Tobacco Control at the Harvard School of Public Health said:
  
“The 20th century was the cigarette century, and we worked very hard to address that. Now the 21st century is about multiple tobacco products. They’re cheap. They’re flavoured. And some of them you can use anywhere.”
 

In my opinion, the Congress should implement fully the landmark law passed in 2009 and attention should also centre on flavoured cigar and cigarillos. The FDA and relevant agencies in Baltimore and elsewhere should assert their authority to save the futures of our tomorrow leaders.