{"id":57325,"date":"2025-05-30T20:55:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction"},"modified":"2025-05-30T21:28:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T21:28:32","slug":"flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction","title":{"rendered":"Flavored Tobacco Products Luring Youth to Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Marking the World No Tobacco Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) launches a new publication and calls on governments to urgently ban all flavours in tobacco and nicotine products, including cigarettes, pouches, hookahs and e-cigarettes to protect youth from addiction and disease.<\/p>\n<p>Flavours like menthol, bubble gum and cotton candy are masking the harshness of tobacco andnicotine products turning toxic products into youth-friendly bait.<\/p>\n<p>Flavours not only make it harder to quit but have also been linked to serious lung diseases. Cigarettes, which still kill up to half of their users, also come in flavours or can have flavours added to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlavours are fuelling a new wave of addiction, and should be banned,\u201d said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO. \u201cThey undermine decades of progress in tobacco control. Without bold action, the global tobacco epidemic, already killing around 8 million people each year, will continue to be driven by addiction dressed up with appealing flavours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flavours are a leading reason why young people try tobacco and nicotine products.<\/p>\n<p>Paired with flashy packaging and social media-driven marketing, they\u2019ve increased the appeal of nicotine pouches, heated tobacco, and disposable vapes into addictive and harmful products, which aggressively target young people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are watching a generation get hooked on nicotine through gummy bear-flavoured pouches and rainbow-coloured vapes,\u201d said Dr Ru\u0308diger Krech, WHO Director of Health Promotion. \u201cThis isn\u2019t innovation, it\u2019s manipulation. And we must stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Lesotho<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. Marking the World No Tobacco Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) launches a new publication and calls on governments to urgently ban all flavours in tobacco and nicotine products, including cigarettes, pouches, hookahs and e-cigarettes to protect youth from addiction and disease. Flavours like menthol, bubble gum and cotton candy are masking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":57324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[245,1596,6041,1147],"class_list":["post-57325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-lesotho","tag-tobacco","tag-tobacco-industry","tag-who"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Flavored Tobacco Products Luring Youth to Addiction - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Marking the World No Tobacco Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) launches a new publication and calls on government ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flavored Tobacco Products Luring Youth to Addiction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Marking the World No Tobacco Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) launches a new publication and calls on government ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-30T20:55:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-30T21:28:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/05\/sm_1748624074.941562.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"538\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Flavored Tobacco Products Luring Youth to Addiction\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-30T20:55:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-30T21:28:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction\"},\"wordCount\":257,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/05\/sm_1748624074.941562.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Lesotho\",\"Tobacco\",\"Tobacco Industry\",\"WHO\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction\",\"name\":\"Flavored Tobacco Products Luring Youth to Addiction - Lesotho\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/05\/sm_1748624074.941562.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-30T20:55:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-30T21:28:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Marking the World No Tobacco Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) launches a new publication and calls on government ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/05\/sm_1748624074.941562.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/05\/sm_1748624074.941562.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":538,\"caption\":\"Flavored Tobacco Products Luring Youth to Addiction\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Flavored Tobacco Products Luring Youth to Addiction\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/\",\"name\":\"Lesotho\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Flavored Tobacco Products Luring Youth to Addiction - Lesotho","description":"Marking the World No Tobacco Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) launches a new publication and calls on government ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Flavored Tobacco Products Luring Youth to Addiction","og_description":"Marking the World No Tobacco Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) launches a new publication and calls on government ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction","og_site_name":"Lesotho","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2025-05-30T20:55:53+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-05-30T21:28:32+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":538,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/05\/sm_1748624074.941562.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Flavored Tobacco Products Luring Youth to Addiction","datePublished":"2025-05-30T20:55:53+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-30T21:28:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction"},"wordCount":257,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/05\/sm_1748624074.941562.jpg","keywords":["Lesotho","Tobacco","Tobacco Industry","WHO"],"articleSection":["all news","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction","name":"Flavored Tobacco Products Luring Youth to Addiction - Lesotho","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/05\/sm_1748624074.941562.jpg","datePublished":"2025-05-30T20:55:53+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-30T21:28:32+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Marking the World No Tobacco Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) launches a new publication and calls on government ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/05\/sm_1748624074.941562.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/05\/sm_1748624074.941562.jpg","width":1024,"height":538,"caption":"Flavored Tobacco Products Luring Youth to Addiction"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/flavored-tobacco-products-luring-youth-to-addiction#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Flavored Tobacco Products Luring Youth to Addiction"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/","name":"Lesotho","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}