That article makes no reference to age groups, and suggests that a sweet taste increases desirability across the board. It seems like a stretch to then say they

That article makes no reference to age groups, and suggests that a sweet taste increases desirability across the board. It seems like a stretch to then say they are targeting a particular age group, especially when the participants in the study were well outside of the alleged age group: > We enrolled 16 occasional/intermittent to light smokers (4 female; M = 27 years, range 19–45; The paper _does_ link to a more to a more targeted study[1], but there is a fairly major limitation ("does not allow direct estimation of flavoring’s role in initiation of tobacco use among youth") and it does not necessarily suggest that flavouring is targeting the young per se and not merely being what users in general are looking for. [1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2464690 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2464690