The Push to Raise the Legal Age to Buy Tobacco to 21 Has Little Basis in Fact Weak Associations and Disregard for Unintended Consequences Make for Bad Policy The notion that raising the tobacco purchasing age to 21 helps reduce adolescent smoking seems plausible enough
As the pleasurable effects of smoking wear off fairly quickly, a smoker is compelled to smoke again and again, exposing the brain to a list of chemicals that, according to the American Lung Association, include: Arsenic (found in rat poison) Acetone (found in nail polish remover) Cadmium (the active chemical component in battery acid) Toluene (an ingredient in the manufacturing of paint) 16 Lead (found in batteries) The writers of the study in the Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggest that instead of merely telling smokers in alcohol recovery programs to give up their cigarettes (for fear that it would be asking too much), the treatment community should offer a comprehensive smoking-cessation program, effectively combining therapy for nicotine abuse with the pre-existing treatment model in place for alcohol addiction
(There were too few transgender respondents in this sample for the researchers to include gender identity in their analysis.) The researchers adjusted for other variables including sex, age, race/ethnicity, education level (for participants over 18) and parents education level (for participants under 18), and where participants lived (urban/nonurban, and region of the US)
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