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CDC reports confirm benefits of raising tobacco age to 21


CDC reports confirm benefits of raising tobacco age to 21 | AAP News

The reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found people who started smoking before age 21 are more likely to have a ...

CDC reports confirm benefits of raising tobacco age to 21

Two new reports from federal health officials confirm the benefits of a new federal law raising the tobacco purchasing age to 21. The reports ...

Raising the Minimum Legal Sales Age for Tobacco Products - CDC

and 5.0% of high school students reported current use of cigars.47,48. • Although considerable progress has been made in reducing cigarette smoking among U.S..

Tobacco 21 Is the Law of the Land - American Lung Association

Increasing the minimum age of sale for tobacco products to at least 21 years old will significantly reduce youth tobacco use and save ...

Policy Evaluation for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs

Prior to the enactment of the national T21 law, nineteen states had already passed legislation to raise the MLSA for tobacco products to 21 years. This guide ...

STATE System Tobacco MLSA Fact Sheet - CDC

These findings align with an National Academy of Medicine report from 2015 predicting that raising the minimum legal sales age (MLSA) for tobacco products from ...

US Tobacco 21 is Paving the Way for a Tobacco Endgame - PMC

In 2015, a report from the Institute of Medicine found that increasing the minimum age of sale for tobacco products to 21 years of age would ...

Tobacco 21

“Tobacco 21” policies are a way to keep harmful, addictive products – like cigarettes, cigars, and electronic nicotine delivery systems – out of the reach ...

A Rapid Evaluation of the US Federal Tobacco 21 (T21) Law ... - CDC

Effective December 20, 2019, the US passed a federal law raising the minimum age of purchasing tobacco products from 18 years to 21 years ( ...

A Rapid Evaluation of the US Federal Tobacco 21 (T21) Law and ...

On December 20, 2019, the minimum age for purchasing tobacco in the US was raised nationally to 21 years. We evaluated this law (Tobacco 21 [T21]) ...

Tobacco 21 - FDA

20, 2019, the President signed legislation amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and raising the federal minimum age for sale of ...

Raising the Tobacco Age to 21

Increasing the tobacco age to 21 will help to prevent young people from ever starting to smoke and to reduce the deaths, disease and health care costs caused ...

The National and State Tobacco Control Program - CDC

Policies that prohibit menthol can reduce tobacco experimentation among young people, increase the number of smokers that quit, and lead to a ...

The health and economic impact of the Tobacco 21 Law in El Paso ...

Raising the legal purchase age of tobacco products to 21 could reduce tobacco use ... verify all tobacco product retailers are in compliance with the T21 law.

The health and economic impact of the Tobacco 21 Law in El Paso ...

In December 2019, the US federal Tobacco 21 (T21) law passed to raise the minimum legal purchase age for tobacco products from 18 to 21 years. Preliminary ...

20-Year Trends in Tobacco Sales and Self-Reported ... - CDC

Self-reported cigarette smoking decreased significantly during 2002–2019 in the overall population for both ever (73.4% to 59.5%) and current ...

preventing chronic disease - CDC stacks

benefits of quitting tobacco use. Such benefits include the im ... Newly signed legislation raises federal minimum age of sale of tobacco products to 21.

preventing chronic disease - CDC

age CDC's national tobacco education campaigns and reports by ... Implement policies to raise minimum age of tobacco sales to at least age 21.

Changes in Sales of Tobacco and Nicotine Replacement Therapy ...

Policy events were 1) the raising of the minimum legal purchase age for tobacco products to 21 years (Tobacco 21) on December 20, 2019, and 2) ...

CDC Report Shows Overwhelming, Across-the-Board Support for ...

"Today's CDC report confirms, once again, that raising the age of sale for tobacco to 21 has the widespread support of the American people. This ...