Application of consumer protection authority in preventing tobacco sales to minors.

Comments on "Preventing illegal tobacco and alcohol sales to minors through electronic age-verification devises".

Empowering Retailers to Refuse to Sell Tobacco Products to Minors

Tobacco smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke are major environmental risk factors that negatively influence health. It is recommended that tobacco product manufacturers and retailers receive empowerment counseling programs to achieve adolescent health targets. The present study conducted an empowerment counseling session to counsel tobacco product retailers in refusing to sell tobacco produ...

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO DETERMINE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE INTERVENTION* Restricting Minors’ Access to Tobacco Products: Sales Laws Directed at Tobacco Retailers to Reduce Illegal Sales to Minors

Tobacco sales to minors in Italy.

AIMS AND BACKGROUND One of the strategies to control tobacco is to limit purchase of cigarettes to minors. To understand the attitudes of Italian adults towards regulations to prevent minors from purchasing tobacco products, we added specific questions to the annual survey on smoking in Italy. METHODS During March-April 2007, we conducted a survey on smoking on 3,057 subjects representative o...

A systematic review of interventions for preventing tobacco sales to minors.

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of interventions to reduce underage access to tobacco by deterring shopkeepers from making illegal sales. METHOD Systematic literature review. DATA SOURCES The Cochrane Tobacco Addiction group specialised register and Medline. Studies of interventions to alter retailer behaviour were identified. The terms used for searching combined terms for smoking an...