The legal United States smoking age is raised to 21 years old.

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The legal United States smoking age is raised to 21 years old.

Reduce the incidence of chronic smokers

Decrease profits for tobacco companies

After 7 years of not having smokers ages 18 to 21 the tobacco industry is predicted to lose $1.2 billion

If someone does not start smoking until 24 years old their odds of becoming a smoker decrease to 20 to 1

Reduce youth tobacco use

45% reduction in sales to this 15 to 16

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Reduce the smoking rate by 12%

Reduce smoking related deaths by 10%

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50,000 fewer deaths from lung cancer

4.2 million fewer years of life lost

Reduce tobacco related healthcare costs

Sources:

Bach, L. (2019, December 31). INCREASING THE MINIMUM LEGAL SALE AGE FOR TOBACCO PRODUCTS TO 21. Retrieved January 24, 2020, from https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/assets/factsheets/0376.pdf

STATE System Tobacco 21 Fact Sheet. (2019, December 17). Retrieved January 24, 2020, from https://www.cdc.gov/statesystem/factsheets/t21/Tobacco21.html

Winickoff, J. P., Hartman, L., Chen, M. L., Gottlieb, M., Nabi-Burza, E., & DiFranza, J. R. (2014, November). Retail impact of raising tobacco sales age to 21 years. Retrieved January 24, 2020, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4202948/

Kaplan, S. (2019, December 19). Congress Approves Raising Age to 21 for E-Cigarette and Tobacco Sales. Retrieved January 24, 2020, from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/health/cigarette-sales-age-21.html

Reduce underage youth access to cigarrettes

60% of 10th graders say it would be easy to get cigarettes from many sources

Older classmates

Older siblings

Reduce tobacco sales by approximately 2%

Meet the Healthy People 2020 goal of a 12% smoking rate

From 2005 to 2015 the smoking rate declined 5.5%

Eliminating youth smokers and the smoking incidence could make this drop even more