I am a student at South Portland High School. I support the proposed ordinance to end the sale of flavored tobacco in South Portland.

When I walk into the bathroom at school, I am bombarded with the scent of cotton candy, peach or blue raspberry, the types of scents somebody might associate with sugar-crazed children in a candy shop. In fact, these smells are coming from the highly addictive flavored tobacco products, straight from the hands of my peers.

It is too easy for adolescents to become addicted to nicotine. Banning flavored tobacco products is an extremely important step in protecting Maine’s young people from addiction and its consequences. As students who cannot vote, we need your help preventing addiction among Maine teens by banning flavored tobacco in our city. The health and future of my generation depends on it.

Ninon Eppich
South Portland