Tobacco Prevention and Control

According to a report of the Medical Research Institute 2015, according to the research, it is shown by children that smoking will be drastically reduced when young people increase their legal selling age from 18 years old to 21 years old, which is known as "Tobacco 21" It has been. It is worth noting that the report estimates that smoking rates for children aged 15 to 17 will be reduced by 25% if the purchase age of tobacco is raised to 21.

Almost all tobacco users started before 21 years old. According to the Minicotta Health Bureau's Consultation on Nicotine in 2017, adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the deleterious effects of nicotine addiction and nicotine on the developing brain. Increasing the minimum tobacco retail age to 21 will limit the rights to young tobacco. By the age of 21, the brain part of reasonable decision making is more fully developed.

According to a medical article in Minnesota State in Minnesota State in January 2017, raising the legal sale age to 21 years will have a one-off effect and people over 3,300 young Minnesota will be unable to start smoking. In this model, tobacco 21 prevents an estimated 30,000 Minnesota youth from starting to smoke within 15 years.

Read more: Minimum legal age of tobacco sales 21: Increase Minnesota's estimated effect (PDF)

Expanding the age gap with children who legally purchase tobacco with children helps to prevent tobacco from entering the high school environment. According to the Minnesota Youth Tobacco survey in 2017, one in four students is still using certain tobacco products, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is expected that 102,100 Minnesota young people will die of smoking.

In the long term, tobacco 21 can significantly reduce smoking and Minnesota Integrated Tobacco Control Framework: 2016-2021 (PDF) identifies tobacco 21 as a step to reduce youth smoking.

The Minnesota State Department of Health supports the statewide effort to raise the statutory sale age to 21 years old. Nationwide, more than 310 communities in 20 states are adopting 21 cigarette policy. In California, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey and Oregon, the minimum age for selling tobacco in this country has been raised to 21 years.

This information is also available in PDF format. Tobacco 21: Improve the health impact of the lowest tobacco sales age (PDF)

Health equity in the prevention and management of tobacco was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, focusing on how the integrated tobacco control program can achieve fairness of health in tobacco prevention and management It is a guide. It includes a broad list of population-specific resources. The Fact Sheet of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Smoking and Health (CDC) was created to provide information public health officials and others have reported by surgeons. They are related to the relationship between smoking and certain diseases and health conditions such as cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. There is also a fact sheet on the risk of smoking in certain populations.

This guide was created by the project team of the Anti-Tobacco Project funded by the Texas State Health Service Department as part of a comprehensive effort to promote cigarette prevention and control activities on tobacco. The use of this guide and the subsequent policy enforcement process will vary from campus to campus. Students can step through the steps listed here, step back and forth between steps or tackle several steps at the same time.

The use of tobacco will continue to be a major cause of preventable diseases and the deaths of that country and other more and more countries until the use of tobacco matches the harm caused by the use of tobacco. This report provides a comprehensive assessment of key ways of education, clinical, regulatory, economic and social development that can lead to the development of this expanded national effort. Therefore, this report is a prelude to a coherent long-term tobacco policy for this country.