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Application of consumer protection authority in preventing tobacco sales to minors
  1. B S Krevor1,
  2. A Lieberman2,
  3. K Gerlach3
  1. 1Schneider Institute of Health Policy, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
  2. 2Tobacco Litigation and Enforcement Section, California Office of the Attorney General, Sacramento, California, USA
  3. 3Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
  1. Correspondence to:
 Brad S Krevor, Schneider Institute of Health Policy, Heller Graduate School, Mailstop 035, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA;
 krevor{at}brandeis.edu

Abstract

In the USA, the enforcement of state sales of tobacco products to minors laws has had only limited impact upon reducing youth access. The application of consumer protection authorities by state attorneys general to alter the sales and promotion practices of tobacco retailers provides a complementary and highly leveraged strategy to increase compliance with tobacco sales to minors laws

  • consumer protection
  • minors

https://doi.org/10.1136/tc.11.2.109

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    • ↵* Walgreen became the first chain to execute an assurance of voluntary compliance on 13 March 2002. The attorneys general work group prefers that the names of the remaining chains be withheld until individual negotiations are concluded.