POLICY INITIATIVES

Flavored Tobacco

The tobacco industry adds fruit, candy, menthol and other novelty flavors to their products to attract customers and hook kids.

E-cigarettes, or vapes, have become extremely popular over the past decade and have driven the youth commercial tobacco use epidemic.

Minnesota's Tobacco 21 law, which raised the legal age to buy commercial tobacco products to 21, went into effect in 2019.

According to the CDC, there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke.