| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| 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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