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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Tobacco Use: Community Mobilization with Additional Interventions to Restrict Minors' Access to Tobacco Products

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: June 2001

Workgroups: Tobacco Use Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends community mobilization, combined with other interventions, to reduce youth tobacco use and access to commercially sold tobacco products. These are community-wide interventions that focus public attention on youth access to tobacco products and mobilize support for efforts to reduce access. CPSTF found that community mobilization is effective when combined with efforts like:

  • Stronger local laws directed at retailers 
  • Enforcement of retailer sales laws 
  • Retailer education with reinforcement
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Objectives related to this resource (7)

Reduce current tobacco use in adolescents — TU‑04
LHI label
Getting worse
Reduce current e-cigarette use in adolescents — TU‑05
Little or no detectable change
Reduce current cigarette smoking in adolescents — TU‑06
Target met or exceeded
Reduce current cigar smoking in adolescents — TU‑07
Improving
Reduce current use of smokeless tobacco products among adolescents — TU‑08
Target met or exceeded
Reduce current use of flavored tobacco products in adolescents who use tobacco — TU‑09
Baseline only
Eliminate cigarette smoking initiation in adolescents and young adults — TU‑10
Improving

Suggested Citation

1.

Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2001). Tobacco Use: Community Mobilization with Additional Interventions to Restrict Minors' Access to Tobacco Products. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/tobacco-use-community-mobilization-additional-interventions