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Sweet Cigarillos And Cigars Lure Youths To Tobacco, Critics Say. (NPR, 10/26/2013)

Article notes that cigarettes sales are down by one-third during the past decade, but sales of little cigars and cigarillos are up more than 100%.

And without the benefit of a commercial ditty sung by the bedroom-voiced Julie London.



For critics, it's a multiple-front war.

And on the state front:.

Other view: State should tax all tobacco products equally. (Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter, 9/25/2013)

Excerpt:  The most egregious example, he [Rep. Gary Bies, R-Sister Bay] says, are “little cigars” that sell for around $1, rather than the $6 to $8 per pack for regular cigarettes, and that come in flavors like grape, cherry and chocolate. They are easily accessible to children and now exceed sales of regular cigarettes among Wisconsin high school students.