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LETTER TO THE EDITOR |
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:
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 19931996 were presented by Alciati and colleagues.1 The data were recently updated for 19971999 and corrected for 19931996. 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 19931999 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 19931999, the total score for each state
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