Flavored cigars appeal to youth: study

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Flavored cigars appeal to youth: study

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/flavored-cigars-appeal-youth-study-150615903.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/k8giIhiYDlSGr9du0UO8sg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-04-18T150615Z_1_CBREA3H15YJ00_RTROPTP_2_CUBA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Cigars ready to put in boxes are pictured at the H. Upmann factory in Havana" align="left" title="Cigars ready to put in boxes are pictured at the H. Upmann factory in Havana" border="0" /></a>By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young people are smoking fewer cigarettes these days, but their cigar use is rising, which may partly be due to the popularity of flavored cigars, according to a new study. &quot;The cigar market is the most heavily flavored of all tobacco products,&quot; said Cristine D. Delnevo, who led the research. &quot;For decades, tobacco industry internal documents have highlighted that flavors appeal to youth and young people.&quot; Delnevo, who directs the Center for Tobacco Surveillance &amp; Evaluation Research at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey in New Brunswick, and colleagues from the National Institutes of Health investigated recent market and survey data on flavored cigar use among young people. Delnevo and her coauthors analyzed an annual survey of drug and alcohol use among Americans ages 12 and up.</p><br clear="all"/>

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