LETTER TO THE EDITOR

State laws on youth access to tobacco: an update, 1993–1999

J F Chriqui¹, M M Frosh¹, L A Fues¹, R el Arculli² and F A Stillman^3,*

¹ The MayaTech Corporation, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
² National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
³ Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Jamie F Chriqui, PhD, The MayaTech Corporation, 8737 Colesville Road, 7th Floor, Silver Spring MD 20910-3921, USA;jchriqui@mayatech.com.

Keywords: youth access laws

Numerical scores rating the extensiveness of state laws on youth access to tobacco as of the years 1993–1996 were presented by Alciati and colleagues.¹ The data were recently updated for 1997–1999 and corrected for 1993–1996. Notably, the current analysis captures more long term state legislative activity following implementation of the Synar Amendment² and the attempted Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule that included a number of youth access provisions.³

The results across the years 1993–1999 provide the opportunity for comparative benchmarking of state youth access laws based on recognised public health goals⁴ as well as for comparisons with state clean indoor air laws.⁵ Rating systems for both state youth access and clean indoor air laws were developed by an advisory committee of the National Cancer Institute's State Cancer Legislative Database Program using a comparable methodology.^{1, 5}

In rating state youth access laws as of 1993–1999, the total score for each state . . . [Full text of this article]

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