[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Reduction of youth smoking with restrictions on flavored cigarettes in Massachusetts, USA Hawkins SS, et al. Flavored tobacco product restrictions in Massachusetts associated with reductions in adolescent cigarette and e-cigarette use. Tobacco Control. Online First. 9 March 2021.

https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2021/03/09/tobaccocontrol-2020-056159

“Researchers examine the associations between county-level flavored tobacco product restrictions, tobacco 21 policies, and smoke-free laws prohibiting e-cigarettes with adolescent cigarette and e-cigarette use in Massachusetts, and to assess whether policy effects varied by age.

Counties with greater implementation of flavored tobacco product restrictions were associated with a decrease in the level of cigarette use among users (incidence rate ratio -1.56; 95% CI -2.54 to -0.58). A significant interaction (p=0.03) revealed the largest reductions among 14 and 18-year-olds. Increasing flavored tobacco product restrictions were also associated with reductions in the likelihood of e-cigarette use (OR -0.87; 95% CI -1.68 to -0.06). Increasing tobacco 21 restrictions were associated with decreases in cigarette use only among 18-year-olds, while there was no evidence of associations between smoke-free laws with the use of either tobacco product.”

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