Glied Sherry
Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2003 Mar;93(3):412-6. doi: 10.2105/ajph.93.3.412.
Antismoking efforts often target teenagers in the hope of producing a new generation of never smokers. Teenagers are more responsive to tobacco taxes than are adults. The author summarizes recent evidence suggesting that delaying smoking initiation among teenagers through higher taxes does not generate proportionate reductions in prevalence rates through adulthood. In consequence, the impact of taxes on smoking among youths overstates the potential long-term public health effects of this tobacco control strategy.
禁烟努力通常以青少年为目标，希望培养出新一代从不吸烟的人。青少年对烟草税的反应比成年人更敏感。作者总结了最近的证据，表明通过提高税收来延迟青少年开始吸烟，并不能在成年后的患病率上产生相应比例的降低。因此，税收对青少年吸烟的影响高估了这种烟草控制策略潜在的长期公共卫生效果。
