Which adults do underaged youth ask for cigarettes?
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.
Ribisl
K M
KM
Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, Calif., USA. kribisl@sph.unc.edu
Norman
G J
GJ
Howard-Pitney
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Howard
K A
KA
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