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WHAT CAN STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS DO?
<br />California, Hawaii, New Jersey, Maine, Oregon and Massachusetts have
<br />raised the age to 21. Edina, Saint Louis Park, Bloomington, Plymouth,
<br />North Mankato, Falcon Heights, Shoreview, Minneapolis, Saint Peter,
<br />Richfield, Roseville, Minnetonka, Excelsior, Lauderdale, Brooklyn Center,
<br />Hermantown, Mendota Heights, Eden Prairie, Otter Tail, Pope and Beltrami
<br />Counties, Waseca and Duluth have raised the age in Minnesota. Needham,
<br />Mass., raised the legal tobacco sales age to 21 in 2005. Within five years,
<br />tobacco use among high school students decreased by nearly half.11
<br />IS YOUTH TOBACCO USE STILL A PROBLEM?
<br />The percent of students who smoke cigarettes is declining, but the 2016
<br />Minnesota Student Survey found that 9th and 11th graders in Minnesota are
<br />now using e-cigarettes at twice the rate of regular cigarettes.10 Increasing
<br />the sale age to 21 would reduce youth access to all harmful tobacco
<br />products, including e-cigarettes, cigars and hookah.
<br />The Association for Nonsmokers-Minnesota is dedicated to reducing the human and economic costs of tobacco use in Minnesota.
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<br />SOURCES
<br />"Raising the legal
<br />minimum age for
<br />cigarette purchaser
<br />to 21 could gut our
<br />young adult market
<br />where we sell about
<br />25 billion cigarettes
<br />and enjoy a
<br />70 percent market
<br />share."
<br />Philip Morris
<br />report, 1986
<br />California, Hawaii, New
<br />Jersey, Maine, Oregon
<br />and Massachusetts raised
<br />the minimum legal sale age
<br />for tobacco products to 21
<br />since 2016.
<br />More than 350 localities
<br />in the United States
<br />have raised the minimum
<br />legal sale age for tobacco
<br />products to 21.
<br />Some organizations who support raising
<br />tobacco sale age to 21 include:
<br />• American Cancer Society Cancer
<br />Action Network
<br />• American Heart Association
<br />• American Lung Association
<br />• ClearWay MinnesotaSM
<br />• Minnesota Academy of Family
<br />Physicians
<br />• Service Employees International
<br />Union Minnesota State Council
<br />1 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults: A Report of the Surgeon General. U.S. Department of Health
<br />and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National 2 Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health.
<br />2012.
<br />2 Institute of Medicine. Public Health Implications of Raising the Minimum Age of Legal Access to Tobacco Products. National Academy Press. 2015.
<br />3 Boyle, R., Kingsbury, J. & Parks, M. Raising the Minimum Legal Sales Age for Tobacco to 21. Minnesota Medicine. 2017.
<br />4 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking: 50 Years of Progress. A Report of the Surgeon General. U.S. Department of
<br />Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and
<br />Health. 2014.
<br />5 Goriounova, N., Mansvelder, H. Nicotine exposure during adolescence alters the rules for prefrontal cortical synaptic plasticity during adulthood. Frontiers in synaptic
<br />neuroscience. 2012.
<br />6 Nelson, D. et al. Long-term trends in adolescent and young adult smoking in the United States: metapatterns and implications. Am J Public Health. 2008.
<br />7 Abreu-Villaca, Y et al. Short-term adolescent nicotine exposure has immediate and persistent effects on cholinergic systems: critical periods, patterns of exposure, dose
<br />thresholds. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2003.
<br />8 Slikker W Jr. et al. Mode of action: disruption of brain cell replication, second messenger, and neurotransmitter systems during development leading to cognitive
<br />dysfunction—developmental neurotoxicity of nicotine. Crit Rev Toxicol. 2005.
<br />9 King BA et al. Attitudes Toward Raising the Minimum Age of Sale for Tobacco Among U.S. Adults. Am J Prev Med. 2015.
<br />10 Minnesota Student Survey Data. Minnesota Department of Health. 2016; http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/dse/health/mss/. Accessed November 22, 2016.
<br />11 Kessed Schneider S et al. Community reductions in youth smoking after raising the minimum tobacco sales age to 21. Tob Control. 2015.
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<br />Key:
<br />Statewide law
<br />Number of
<br />cities within the
<br />state that have
<br />passed age 21
<br />policies
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