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Enforcing bans on cigarette sales to kids reduces youth smoking
May 9th, 2009
A new study finds that enforcing federal and state laws against tobacco sales to minors dramatically decreases underage smoking rates. The results show that laws prohibiting sales of cigarettes to minors and stepped up enforcement of those laws in the United States have led to a 20.8 percent drop in the odds of 10th graders becoming daily smokers. The study is the first nationwide review to show that laws prohibiting retailers from selling cigarettes to underage youth are working as intended. "Skeptics argued that prohibiting sales to minors wouldn't help, because kids would always be able to get cigarettes somewhere," said Joseph DiFranza, MD, Professor of Family...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-05-09)
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