Ban on flavoured tobacco products or vaping might lead teens to smoke cigarettes
3 years, 6 months ago

Ban on flavoured tobacco products or vaping might lead teens to smoke cigarettes

Hindustan Times  

When San Francisco voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure banning the sale of flavoured tobacco products in 2018, public health advocates celebrated. Ban on flavoured tobacco products or vaping might lead teens to smoke cigarettes But according to a new study from the Yale School of Public Health, that law may have had the opposite effect. Analyses found that, after the ban's implementation, high school students' odds of smoking conventional cigarettes doubled in San Francisco's school district relative to trends in districts without the ban, even when adjusting for individual demographics and other tobacco policies. "This would substantively reduce children's incidental exposure to tobacco products at convenience stores and gas stations, and adolescents' access to them, without increasing incentives to choose more lethal combustible products over non-combustible options like e-cigarettes."

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