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EDITORIAL |
| Youth access |
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, Institute for Health Policy Studies, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Correspondence to:
Stanton A Glantz, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Box 0130, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA;
glantz@medicine.ucsf.edu
Keywords: youth access tobacco programmes; prevention; public health
The most widespread and popular strategy for reducing tobacco use has been "youth access" laws, which make it illegal to sell cigarettes to teenagers. In the USA, youth access controls have been part of tobacco control policies required by the federal government in order to obtain funding for substance abuse programmes1; they were at the core of the tobacco regulation proposed by the Food and Drug Administration2 and struck down by the US Supreme Court. Both the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention3 and the Institute of Medicine4 recommend youth access controls as part of a comprehensive tobacco control program. By August 2001, in the USA all 50 states and 1139 local governments had passed youth access laws (American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation database, 24 August 2001).
Unfortunately, while these programmes do make it difficult for teens to purchase cigarettes,5–7 on the whole they do not affect
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