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The law forbiding the sale of cigarettes to minors is not a failure. The failure is that it is NOT illegal for minors to purchase cigarettes. Pass laws and start fining minors who attempt to purchase cigarettes and minors caught with them in their possesion and it will cause a reduction. Not a great deal of reduction though, as most of the activity would just move 'indoors'. But you will no longer have a gang of 15 year olds at the mall entrance puffing away, and that would be a good thing.
THIS IS NOT A LAW!!!
It is, instead, a regulation. A "law" is something voted into effect by representatives that are accountable to constitutents. A "regulation", which is what this really is, is created by a bureacrat that you will never meet, probably will never even know the name of, and has substantial power to screw up your life with impunity.
The findings indicate that resources to curb smoking among adolescents may be better directed at other types of interventions such as taxes on cigarettes, smoke-free workplaces and homes, and educational efforts on the health effects of secondhand smoke.
I do not give a darn what the bloody anti-smokers have been denying for years - here it is in BLACK AND WHITE!!!!!! and we all know that the "educational efforts" are nothing short of propaganda brainwashing.
"Given the limited resources available for tobacco control, as well as the expense of conducting youth access programs, tobacco control advocates should start redirecting their energies and funds away from youth access and toward other interventions that have proven effectiveness," write Dr. Stanton A. Glantz and Caroline M. Fichtenberg from the University of California, San Francisco.
First of all this is coming from Stanton Glantz - so we know it is all false - particularly when it comes to talk about money. He is one of THE most highly paid anti-smoker professional nannies in the World. He has publicly stated he will only do research where he knows the results will come out the way "it should." He claims to have a Ph.D in Economics when he has no such thing - his Ph.D is in Mechanical Engineering.
Next, about the only "interventions" that have been proven effective are ones taken in Florida - underage possession or use of tobacco products can result in the loss of a teen's driving privileges. I think that would be a great incentive to avoid using tobacco.
I think these people are beginning to fear their funds will dry up....... they may have to look for a real job.