Nicotine Addiction

Law enforcement makes retailers shape up, but kids still smoke

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 17th, 2003

Enforcing laws that limit tobacco sales to minors may boost the number of retailers who won't sell to kids, but has minimal effect on youth smoking, a new study suggests.

When blocked from buying cigarettes over the counter, teen smokers turn to friends and family members to obtain cigarettes, according to the study, which examined ninth graders in Erie County, New York.

Results of the study by K. Michael Cummings, PhD, MPH, and colleagues from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo appeared in Nicotine & Tobacco Research.

Cummings and his colleagues tested enforcement by monitoring tobacco sales to minors in 12...

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