Statewide evaluation of youth access ordinances in practice: effects of the implementation of community-level regulations in Massachusetts.
Statewide evaluation of youth access ordinances in practice: effects of the implementation of community-level regulations in Massachusetts.
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全州范围内青年准入条例的实践评估：马萨诸塞州社区级法规实施的影响。
DOI：
10.1097/00124784-200411000-00002
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2004
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Rigotti,NancyA
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作者：
Thomson,CareyConley;Gokhale,Manjusha;Biener,Lois;Siegel,MichaelB;Rigotti,NancyA
The objectives of the study described in this article were to test whether community-level youth access ordinances reduce adolescents’ perceived access to tobacco, purchase attempts, and tobacco use. A telephone survey was performed of a random sample of 3,831 Massachusetts adolescents linked to a database of all town-level youth access ordinances in the state. Respondents’ perceived ease of access to tobacco, attempts to purchase tobacco, and tobacco use (ever smoking and current [past 30-day] smoking) were assessed. The association of these outcomes with the characteristics of youth access ordinances in the respondents’ town of residence (n= 314) was tested in multilevel analyses that included town-level clustering, controlled for multiple individual and environmental characteristics, including a measure of community-level anti-smoking sentiment. Community-level youth access ordinances were not associated with adolescents’ perceived access to tobacco, purchase attempts, or tobacco use, with two exceptions:(1) banning free-standing displays was associated with a 40% reduction in perceived access to tobacco (OR= 0.6; 95% CI, 0.4–0.9) and (2) a vending machine ban was associated a 30% higher report of perceived access to tobacco (OR= 1.3; 95% CI, 1.1–1.5). This study found no consistent associations between community-level youth access ordinances and adolescents’ perceived access to tobacco, purchase attempts, or smoking prevalence.
