Impact of Total Vending Machine Restrictions on US Young Adult Smoking.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In an analysis of smoking using a longitudinal sample of US young adults, we extend research on tobacco vending machine restrictions beyond its prior focus on minors by examining the influence of total vending machine restrictions, which apply to adult-only facilities and represents the only remaining vending machine exemption since the enactment of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. We identify whether the passage of a restriction influences an individual's smoking on repeated observations, and if the propensity is lower among those who live in locations with a restriction.

Methods

Combining a repository of US tobacco policies at all geographic levels with the nationally-representative geocoded National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and

SUBMITTER: Vuolo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5055744 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature