NATO Responds to Study on Raising Legal Purchase Age
Published in Tobacco E-News
By Thomas A. Briant, NATO Executive Director
MINNEAPOLIS -- Last week, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a study that concludes raising the minimum legal age to purchase tobacco products “will likely prevent or delay initiation of tobacco use by adolescents and young adults.” The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, the federal law that granted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco products, required the FDA to convene an expert panel to conduct a study on the public health implications of raising the minimum age to purchase tobacco products and submit a report to Congress on the results of the study.
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