منابع مشابه
Effects of enforcement of youth access laws on smoking prevalence.
Smoking is the primary preventable cause of death, and yet 3,000 adolescents become smokers each day. Most adult smokers begin this deadly habit when they are under the age of 18, which is the minimum legal age for the purchase of cigarettes. The majority of adolescent smokers are able to purchase cigarettes even though laws prohibit the sale of cigarettes to minors. In the late 1980s, Woodridg...
متن کاملImpediments to the enforcement of youth access laws.
OBJECTIVE To recognise obstacles to the implementation of the effective enforcement of tobacco sales laws and to identify measures that could be taken to overcome these obstacles. DESIGN Interviews were conducted with health department officials in Massachusetts communities to determine why their efforts to prevent illegal sales of tobacco to minors had been only partially successful. SETTI...
متن کاملAssociation between youth-focused firearm laws and youth suicides.
CONTEXT Firearms are used in approximately half of all youth suicides. Many state and federal laws include age-specific restrictions on the purchase, possession, or storage of firearms; however, the association between these laws and suicides among youth has not been carefully examined. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between youth-focused firearm laws and suicides among youth. DESIGN...
متن کاملPublic Smoking Bans, Youth Access Laws, and Cigarette Sales at Vending Machines
Tobacco control policies have proliferated in many countries in recent years, in particular youth access laws and public smoking bans. The eff ectiveness of youth access laws is still disputed, however, as are the costs of public smoking bans to the hospitality industry. Using a unique data set on cigarette sales at more than 100k vending machines that provides fi rst objective evidence on the ...
متن کاملPost-California tanning ban: a brief update on current youth access laws.
aging, and immunosuppression due to the exposure of UV radiation. As a consequence, there has been an alarming rise in melanoma incidence, especially in young women ages 15 to 39 years. Indeed, it has been shown that tanning bed use increases the risk of melanoma by 75% when use occurs before age 35 years. In response to these alarming trends, numerous health and medical organizations have char...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Dermatology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0003-987X
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.139.4.443