title: Which adults do underaged youth ask for cigarettes?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study identified adults' demographic and smoking behavior characteristics that are related to being asked to provide tobacco to a minor.
  
  
  METHODS
  Telephone interviews were conducted with 6352 California adults. Predictors included age, sex, household income, and smoking status.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only 10.1% of California adults had been asked to provide tobacco to a minor in the previous year. Fewer than 3% of individuals 55 years and older had been asked to provide tobacco, but among younger smokers 59.0% of 18- and 19-year-olds and 39.3% of 20- to 24-year-olds had been approached.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Interventions to reduce the social availability of tobacco are needed.
authors.affiliation: Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, Calif., USA. kribisl@sph.unc.edu
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Ribisl
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Norman
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Howard-Pitney
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Howard
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002140:California / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors