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Restricting Minors’ Access to Tobacco Products: Community Education About Youth Access to Tobacco Products When Used Alone

These interventions attempt to disseminate information community-wide in order to focus public attention on the issue of youth access to tobacco products. These interventions may include educational components such as community-wide assessments of compliance by tobacco retailers, with results disseminated through mass media events. Results may also be disseminated through other components such as community meetings, school meetings and direct contact with local governments.

Summary of Task Force Recommendations & Findings

The Community Preventive Services Task Force finds insufficient evidence to assess the effectiveness of community-wide education about youth access to tobacco products because no studies qualified for review.

Task Force Finding

Results from the Systematic Reviews

No studies evaluating community-wide education programs qualified for this review.

These findings were based on a systematic review of all available studies, conducted on behalf of the Task Force by a team of specialists in systematic review methods, and in research, practice and policy related to tobacco use.

Economic Review

An economic review of this intervention was not conducted because the Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine its effectiveness.

Supporting Materials

Publications

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.

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Disclaimer

The findings and conclusions on this page are those of the Community Preventive Services Task Force and do not necessarily represent those of CDC.

Sample Citation

The content of publications of the Guide to Community Preventive Services is in the public domain. Citation as to source, however, is appreciated. Sample citation: Guide to Community Preventive Services. Restricting minors’ access to tobacco products: community education about youths’ access to tobacco products. www.thecommunityguide.org/tobacco/restrictingaccess/youthaccess.html. Last updated: MM/DD/YYYY.

Review completed: June 2001