NORFOLK - Earlier this month the fourth-grade K-Kids service
organization from Norwood-Norfolk Central School took part in a
tobacco use prevention activity. Led by K-Kids advisors Lee
Mittelstaedt and Carrie French, with help from Ben Todd, St.
Lawrence County Tobacco Program coordinator, the activity
included a brief presentation, scavenger hunt, and writing
assignment. The group learned about the tactics the tobacco
industry uses to lure young people into experimenting with
tobacco products. Companies put candy flavors in tobacco to
trick little kids and teens to smoke and chew it, wrote Taegan
LaBrake. This point is supported by the following quote taken
from tobacco industry files: It is a well know fact that
teenagers like sweet products. So why would tobacco companies
add candy flavors to their products? Adding flavors like orange,
grape, and cherry doesnt make tobacco products safer. It only
makes them more appealing to youth. In March 2008, a poll found
that one in five youth between the ages of 12 a