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NH students celebrate ban on flavored cigarettes  

New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg is heading to Dover to thank students who helped push for the ban on flavored cigarettes that took effect earlier this week.

Gregg, who authored the language banning the candy-, fruit- and clove-flavored cigarettes, will meet Friday with Dover Youth to Youth, an after-school drug prevention program. Members have been lobbying Gregg and other lawmakers for years to ban the cigarettes, which health and federal authorities say are more appealing to youth.

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