Association of tobacco control policies with youth smoking onset in Chile
JAMA Pediatrics Aug 09, 2019
Guindon GE, et al. - Using data from eight waves of a large national school survey of urban communities in Chile, researchers explored the connections between cigarette prices and nonprice tobacco control policies targeted at youth introduced in 2006 (Law 20105) and smoking onset among Chilean youths. According to findings, an increase in real prices of 58.6% and the introduction of Law 20105 were linked to comparable lower hazards of starting smoking. By contrast, inflation-adjusted cigarette prices rose by 206% between 1999 and 2017. Investigators found that both higher prices and the nonprice tobacco control policies were linked to lower hazards of starting smoking in this study of data from a total of 181,624 survey respondents in 8,751 Chilean secondary schools. Findings suggested that large rises in cigarette taxes can be a strategy that can be used to assist youth in Chile decrease smoking.
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