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Curtailing Youth Smoking
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001;155:546-547.
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MOST PEOPLE agree that tobacco products should not be available to youths
younger than 18 years of age. There is considerable disagreement, however,
on how this objective should be achieved. In 1992, Congress passed an amendment
named after the late Mike Synar, a Democratic representative from Oklahoma,
requiring states to adopt and enforce laws establishing a minimum age limit
for buyers of tobacco products and to show progressive reductions in the availability
of tobacco products to minors. Failure to meet these requirements would result
in forfeiture of federal block grant funds for substance abuse prevention
and treatment. Funds were not provided to the states, however, to assist in
tobacco law enforcement activities. Evaluation of the effects of the legislation
were to be provided in the usual government fashion: yearly progress reports
to the federal Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Joseph DiFranza, a professor of family and community medicine . . . [Full Text of this Article] PRODIGIOUS EFFORT BY ONE INDIVIDUAL
QUESTIONABLE VERACITY OF REPORTS
MISPLACED BLAME
PASSAGE VS IMPLEMENTATION OF LEGISLATION
THE TENACITY, INGENUITY, AND RESOURCES OF THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY
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Joseph R. DiFranza
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001;155(5):572-578.
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