Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 170 Rosenau Hall, CB #7440, 135 Dauer Dr, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7440. Email:
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Prev Chronic Dis. 2017 Nov 16;14:E112. doi: 10.5888/pcd14.170255.
Raising the minimum age of legal access to tobacco products may reduce smoking initiation and save lives. In a national telephone survey (2014-2015), US adolescents aged 13 to 17 years (N = 1,125; response rate, 66%) were asked about raising the age of legal access to tobacco products and randomized to hear one of 3 ages (19, 20, or 21 y). Most adolescents, across all US regions, favored raising the minimum age of legal access to 19 (75.7%), 20 (80.6%), or 21 (76.4%). These supportive attitudes may be useful to tobacco prevention and control practitioners who seek to reduce tobacco use among adolescents.
提高合法购买烟草制品的最低年龄可能会减少吸烟的开始,并挽救生命。在一项全国性电话调查(2014-2015 年)中,年龄在 13 至 17 岁的美国青少年(N=1125;回复率为 66%)被问及提高购买烟草制品的合法年龄问题,并被随机安排听取三个年龄(19 岁、20 岁或 21 岁)中的一个。大多数青少年,来自美国所有地区,都赞成将最低合法购买年龄提高到 19 岁(75.7%)、20 岁(80.6%)或 21 岁(76.4%)。这些支持性的态度可能对寻求减少青少年吸烟的烟草预防和控制从业者有用。