Noncompliance with the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors in Brazil: an inconvenient truth.
J Bras Pneumol
; 44(5): 398-404, 2018.
Article
em En, Pt
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30304205
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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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Fumar
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Comércio
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Menores de Idade
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Produtos do Tabaco
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
En
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Pt
Revista:
J Bras Pneumol
Ano de publicação:
2018
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Brasil