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Ordinance Prohibiting the Sale of Flavored Tobacco <br />City Manager’s Office <br />December 21, 2021 <br />Slide 10 <br />Tobacco Use among Youth <br />•A 2016 U.S. Surgeon General report found that <br />while nicotine is a highly addictive drug at any age, <br />youth and young adults are uniquely vulnerable to <br />the long-term consequences of exposing the brain <br />to nicotine. <br />•In 2018, the Surgeon General’s Advisory on E- <br />Cigarette Use among Youth noted that e-cigarette <br />use increased 78 percent among high school <br />students during the past year, and one in five high <br />school students and one in 20 middle school <br />students currently use e-cigarettes.