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The scent of a strawberry-flavored e-cigarette wafts to your nose as you open the door to the school bathroom. A group of students sees you walk in and offers you a vape. They tell you it will help you relieve stress and calm your nerves. You’ve been taught that smoking is bad for you, but it can’t really be that bad if everyone else is doing it, right?

As a member of the California Emerging Leaders Council for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, I’m urging voting yes on Proposition 31 because it will ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes and prevent the next generation of Americans from becoming victims of tobacco addiction and disease.Prop. 30 stumbling in new state poll

Gasoline cars are going the way of Kodak cameras. The only question is whether they will go away fast enough to avoid climate catastrophe. Of course, if you like gas cars’ noise, exhaust, slow acceleration, oil changes, auto repairs and high fuel costs, it’s your choice. Proposition 30 will help the rest of us go electric, and pave the way for clean air and a healthy future.

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