Should the Legal Age for Tobacco Be Raised? Results From a National Sample of Adolescents

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Kowitt, Sarah D. ; Schmidt, Allison M. ; Myers, Allison E. ; Goldstein, Adam O.
• Description:
  Raising the minimum age of legal access to tobacco products may reduce smoking initiation and save lives. In a national telephone survey (2014-2015), US adolescents aged 13 to 17 years (N = 1,125; response rate, 66%) were asked about raising the age of legal access to tobacco products and randomized to hear one of 3 ages (19, 20, or 21 y). Most adolescents, across all US regions, favored raising the minimum age of legal access to 19 (75.7%), 20 (80.6%), or 21 (76.4%). These supportive attitudes may be useful to tobacco prevention and control practitioners who seek to reduce tobacco use among adolescents.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Female Humans Male Smoking/legislation & Jurisprudence Smoking Prevention/legislation & Jurisprudence Surveys And Questionnaires Tobacco Products
• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 14.
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd14.170255
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Pubmed ID:
  29144895
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5695643
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  P50 CA180907/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States
• Volume:
  14
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
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