This the 16th year of the Star Tribune’s lip balm giveaway, and the flavors have run the gamut. Last year’s was a tribute to a favorite State Fair pastime: Crop Art.

FILE - A woman applies lip balm in Long Pond, Pa., Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File) NEW YORK (AP) — A tube of lip balm may seem like the perfect antidote to dry, cracked lips .