Raising the minimum age to 21 “will begin to change access to tobacco products from social sources,” the report suggested, making folks who can legally buy tobacco less likely to be in high-school students’ social networks.
Upping the minimum age for tobacco sales could spare thousands of lives and avert even more premature deaths, research suggests — though the outlook on teen vaping remains dubious.
Research supports the potential public-health benefits of raising this age threshold, at least for traditional tobacco products. A 2015 Institute of Medicine report sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration estimated that raising tobacco products’ MLA to 21 would result in a 12% drop in tobacco-use prevalence by the time teenagers at that time were adults, though its models didn’t account for e-cigarette use.
Nineteen states and Washington, D.C., have increased their minimum tobacco age to 21, says the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. The concept of a 21-year-old minimum age for tobacco access isn’t particularly novel, either, according to a 2016 National Cancer Institute-supported study published in the American Journal of Public Health.
As the CDC puts it, “flavorings in tobacco products can make them more appealing to youth.” Two in three high-school students and nearly half of middle-school students in 2018 who had used tobacco products in the previous month said they’d used a flavored product.
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