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Alternative Title:
Prev Chronic Dis
Personal Author:
Morris, Daniel S. ; Fiala, Steven C. ; Pawlak, Rebecca
Morris, Daniel S. ; Fiala, Steven C. ; Pawlak, Rebecca Less -
Description:
Preventing youth smoking initiation is a priority for tobacco control programs, because most adult tobacco smokers become addicted during adolescence. Interventions that restrict the affordability, accessibility, and marketing of cigarettes have been effective in reducing youth cigarette smoking. However, increasing numbers of youth are smoking tobacco using hookahs. Predictors of smoking tobacco with hookahs are the same as those for smoking cigarettes. Established interventions that curb youth cigarette smoking should therefore be effective in reducing hookah use. Potential policy interventions include equalizing tobacco tax rates for all tobacco types, requiring warning labels on hookah tobacco and accurate labeling of product contents, extending the cigarette flavoring ban to hookah tobacco, enacting smoke-free air laws and removing exemptions for hookah lounges, and expanding shipping restrictions on tobacco products.
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Adolescent
Adult
Child
Female
Health Education
Health Policy
Humans
Male
Product Labeling
Smoking
Taxes
Tobacco
Tobacco Industry
Tobacco Use Cessation

Source:
Prev Chronic Dis. 9.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
Preventing Chronic Disease
Main Document Checksum:
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