%0 Journal Article
%T Effects of Youth Tobacco Access and Possession Policy Interventions on Heavy Adolescent Smokers
%A Leonard A. Jason
%A Steven B. Pokorny
%A Monica L. Adams
%A Annie Topliff
%A Courtney C. Harris
%A Yvonne Hunt
%J International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
%D 2009
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/ijerph6010001
%X This study evaluated the effects of tobacco PUP (Purchase, Use and Possession) laws on tobacco use patterns among students in twenty-four towns, which were randomly assigned into an experimental and a control group. The experimental group involved both PUP law enforcement and reducing minors¡¯ access to commercial sources of tobacco, and the condition for the control group involved only efforts to reduce minors¡¯ access to commercial sources of tobacco. The present study found that adolescents in the control group had a significantly greater increase in the percentage of youth who smoked 20 or more cigarettes per day when compared to the experimental group.
%K PUP laws
%K minors¡¯ access to tobacco
%U http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/6/1/1