Tobacco 21

What is Tobacco 21?

• An effort to increase the legal age to 21 to buy tobacco.
• "Healthy Towns, Healthy Kids"

Nicotine and Tobacco to age 21

• The Teen Brain
• Simple Math
• Arguments

A lot is going on up there!!

!!!BRAINS!!!

• Not fully wired until 25yrs old.
• Pre-Frontal cortex
• Receptors

The facts

• 99% of lifetime smokers started before the age of 26
• 90% of smokers started by age 20.

And..

• Big Tobacco knew
• "Raising the legal minimum age for cigarette purchaser to 21 could gut our key young adult market..."
• Phillip Morris Report, January 21, 1986

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