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Restricting Minors’ Access to Tobacco Products: Sales Laws Directed at Retailers When Used Alone

Task Force Finding*

The Task Force finds insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of laws directed at retailers when implemented alone in reducing youth access to tobacco, because only one study qualified for our review, and that study had limitations in execution and lacked measurements of youth tobacco use or purchase behaviors.

*From the following publication:

Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Tobacco. Adobe PDF File [PDF - 3.63KB] In : Zaza S, Briss PA, Harris KW, eds. The Guide to Community Preventive Services: What Works to Promote Health? Atlanta (GA): Oxford University Press;2005:3-79.

Review completed: June 2001