Noncompliance with the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors in Brazil: an inconvenient truth
ABSTRACT Objective: To draw up an up-to-date scenario of compliance with the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors. Methods: We used data about youth access to cigarette purchase that were obtained through a nationwide survey conducted in 2015 among students aged 13-17 years. We estimat...
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| description | ABSTRACT Objective: To draw up an up-to-date scenario of compliance with the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors. Methods: We used data about youth access to cigarette purchase that were obtained through a nationwide survey conducted in 2015 among students aged 13-17 years. We estimated simple proportions of attempts to buy cigarettes, success of attempts, purchase of cigarettes on a regular basis, and purchase of cigarettes on a regular basis in a store or bar. All estimates were stratified by gender, age group, and Brazilian macro-region. Crude absolute difference and adjusted absolute difference in the proportion of smokers in each category by variable of interest were analyzed by a generalized linear model with binomial distribution and identity link function. Results: Approximately 7 in every 10 adolescent smokers attempted to buy cigarettes at least once in the 30 days prior to the survey. Of those, approximately 9 in every 10 were successful, and individuals aged 16-17 years (vs. those aged 13-15 years) were less often prevented from buying cigarettes (adjusted absolute difference, 8.1%; p ≤ 0.05). Approximately 45% of all smokers aged 13-17 years in Brazil reported buying their own cigarettes on a regular basis without being prevented from doing so, and, of those, 80% reported buying them in a store or bar (vs. from a street vendor). Conclusions: Our findings raise an important public health concern and may contribute to supporting educational and surveillance measures to enforce compliance with existing anti-tobacco laws in Brazil, which have been disregarded. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-23365de9a22c40f9af4027c3a5c6828b2022-12-21T19:49:48ZengSociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e TisiologiaJornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia1806-37562018-10-0144539840410.1590/s1806-37562017000000359S1806-37132018000500398Noncompliance with the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors in Brazil: an inconvenient truthAndré Salem SzkloTânia Maria CavalcanteABSTRACT Objective: To draw up an up-to-date scenario of compliance with the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors. Methods: We used data about youth access to cigarette purchase that were obtained through a nationwide survey conducted in 2015 among students aged 13-17 years. We estimated simple proportions of attempts to buy cigarettes, success of attempts, purchase of cigarettes on a regular basis, and purchase of cigarettes on a regular basis in a store or bar. All estimates were stratified by gender, age group, and Brazilian macro-region. Crude absolute difference and adjusted absolute difference in the proportion of smokers in each category by variable of interest were analyzed by a generalized linear model with binomial distribution and identity link function. Results: Approximately 7 in every 10 adolescent smokers attempted to buy cigarettes at least once in the 30 days prior to the survey. Of those, approximately 9 in every 10 were successful, and individuals aged 16-17 years (vs. those aged 13-15 years) were less often prevented from buying cigarettes (adjusted absolute difference, 8.1%; p ≤ 0.05). Approximately 45% of all smokers aged 13-17 years in Brazil reported buying their own cigarettes on a regular basis without being prevented from doing so, and, of those, 80% reported buying them in a store or bar (vs. from a street vendor). Conclusions: Our findings raise an important public health concern and may contribute to supporting educational and surveillance measures to enforce compliance with existing anti-tobacco laws in Brazil, which have been disregarded.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-37132018000500398&lng=en&tlng=enFumar/epidemiologiaFumar/legislação & jurisprudênciaComportamento do adolescenteSaúde pública |
| spellingShingle | André Salem Szklo Tânia Maria Cavalcante Noncompliance with the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors in Brazil: an inconvenient truth Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia Fumar/epidemiologia Fumar/legislação & jurisprudência Comportamento do adolescente Saúde pública |
| title | Noncompliance with the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors in Brazil: an inconvenient truth |
| title_full | Noncompliance with the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors in Brazil: an inconvenient truth |
| title_fullStr | Noncompliance with the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors in Brazil: an inconvenient truth |
| title_full_unstemmed | Noncompliance with the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors in Brazil: an inconvenient truth |
| title_short | Noncompliance with the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors in Brazil: an inconvenient truth |
| title_sort | noncompliance with the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors in brazil an inconvenient truth |
| topic | Fumar/epidemiologia Fumar/legislação & jurisprudência Comportamento do adolescente Saúde pública |
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