Editorial
Youth access: the baby and the bath water
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For 14 years STAT (Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco) has championed a supply side approach to tobacco use prevention, based upon a hypothesis that fewer youths will use tobacco if they cannot obtain it from retailers.1 There are now a handful of studies that support this hypothesis. The village of Woodridge, Illinois maintained a 50% reduction in youth tobacco use over a five year period while the USA as a whole experienced a sharp increase in teen smoking.2 Reduced use of tobacco by youths has also been reported in communities in Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Washington in response to enforcement efforts.3-6 I believe the supply side approach can work if it is done right.
When properly stated, the supply side hypothesis can be proved false by
demonstrating: (1) that the intervention under study prevented youths
from obtaining tobacco from retailers; (2) that youths were deprived of
this source of tobacco for
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