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SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ This year 480,000 Americans will die from tobacco induced disease. Though this number is still astronomical, public health has made steady progress each year in reducing the toll. Sadly, over the last few years public health advocates have watched with horror as the flavored e-cigarette epidemic exploded and lured a new generation of teenagers into tobacco addiction. Cities, counties, and states have moved to enact legislation to restrict the sale of flavored nicotine products. Despite the science being quite clear that flavored tobacco products entice and hook new smokers, menthol and hookah products are sometimes, quite inexplicably, given exemptions by some municipalities.