Chapter 16 Youth access to tobacco

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"The tobacco industry favors programs and policies penalizing youth for purchasing

and possessing cigarettes. The reason for this is obvious-attention is diverted from

the tobacco industry's own culpability, and blame is laid on children and parents. It

also lessens the perceived responsibility of merchants. Effective youth access

policies should avoid all appearance or effect of punishing youth."

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The tobacco industry's five major goals to ensure youth access are: 1. Use state level

preemption to deny local governments the authority to regulate any aspect of tobacco

use or distribution. 2. Put loopholes into youth access laws that prevent law

enforcement officials from prosecuting merchants who sell tobacco to children. 3. Hold

children responsible for the fact that merchants violate the law (arrest the child, not the

merchant). 4. Hamstring enforcement efforts as much as possible. 5. Outlaw public

health research and investigative reporting about illegal sales to minors.

Tobacco Free Youth Reporter, Fall 1994, pp. 9-10

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"In many states, the tobacco industry has supported or engineered legislation that

cripples enforcement of laws that could keep children from purchasing tobacco. The

industry opposes licensing vendors; wants to bar local authorities from enforcement

power; wants to fine only those who 'knowingly' sell tobacco to children; wants to

outlaw public health research and investigative reporting about illegal sales; and

wants to make the child-purchaser, not the merchant-seller, responsible for the illegal

act."

North Carolina Medical Journal, January 1995, p. 21 (Tom Houston)

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