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“Most people realize at this point that rolling around in a perfect green sward of pesticide-covered turf is probably not the best thing for anybody, but I’m not going to rely on people’s ecological awareness,” he said.

“Flavors attract youth, and the tobacco industry has long recognized that if they don’t get them young, they will go on to lead healthy, tobacco-free lives,” said Erika Sward, vice president for advocacy at the American Lung Association.

“This is what the FDA needed to do from the beginning, and we’re very pleased to see this. … We are very hopeful that this indicates that FDA and DOJ will take more of these steps against other recalcitrant manufacturers,” Erika Sward, assistant vice president for national advocacy for the American Lung Association, told CNN.

Even if the report is not exactly comparable to previous ones, “it’s clear we are going in the wrong direction with millions of kids vaping and more products than ever on the market,” said Erika Sward, national assistant vice president for advocacy for the American Lung Association.

Sward and other vaping critics called on the FDA to ban all flavored e-cigarettes immediately and to step up enforcement against products that are on the market illegally.