An Increase in the Tobacco Age-of-Sale to 21: For Debate in Europe

A debate on the adoption of a tobacco age-of-sale of 21 in Europe has not occurred, with the recent exception of the United Kingdom. The current legally set age of 18 years is proving to be inadequate as adolescents continue to access cigarettes. Tobacco 21 laws have the potential to further limit a...

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Autores principales: Nuyts, Paulien A W, Kuipers, Mirte A G, Willemsen, Marc C, Kunst, Anton E
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7291794/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31408159
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntz135
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Kunst, Anton E
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description A debate on the adoption of a tobacco age-of-sale of 21 in Europe has not occurred, with the recent exception of the United Kingdom. The current legally set age of 18 years is proving to be inadequate as adolescents continue to access cigarettes. Tobacco 21 laws have the potential to further limit access to cigarettes by minors. We believe that soon the time will be ripe for this discussion to spread throughout Europe, specifically among countries that have adopted a smoke-free generation movement.
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spelling pubmed-72917942020-06-16 An Increase in the Tobacco Age-of-Sale to 21: For Debate in Europe Nuyts, Paulien A W Kuipers, Mirte A G Willemsen, Marc C Kunst, Anton E Nicotine Tob Res Commentaries A debate on the adoption of a tobacco age-of-sale of 21 in Europe has not occurred, with the recent exception of the United Kingdom. The current legally set age of 18 years is proving to be inadequate as adolescents continue to access cigarettes. Tobacco 21 laws have the potential to further limit access to cigarettes by minors. We believe that soon the time will be ripe for this discussion to spread throughout Europe, specifically among countries that have adopted a smoke-free generation movement. Oxford University Press 2019-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7291794/ /pubmed/31408159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntz135 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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