The latest health crisis to hit our elementary schools? Flavored cigarettes.
With menthol no longer moving cartons, tobacco companies are luring in new smokers with flavors like cocoa, honey, vanilla and licorice. Doesn’t sound too bad, right?
Think again.
When you burn cocoa, it turns into bromine gas, which will kill you!*
The moral of this story is simple, parents: when you put your kids on cigarettes, for diet and/or self-esteem reasons, make sure it’s a good clean American smoke.
Stay away from the fruity flavors; they’re counterproductive, anyway, if your kid’s trying to look cool.
*Very slowly because it “dilates and anesthetizes the lungs, maximizing their absorption of smoke and nicotine.”