A pilot study to evaluate a tobacco diversion program

By 1998, 42 states had implemented legislation to prohibit the purchase, possession, or use of tobacco by minors. Since Sep 1998, adolescents who are cited for a first or second tobacco violation in Hennepin County, MN are eligible to attend a tobacco diversion program that allows them to have the m...

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Published inAmerican journal of public health (1971) Vol. 91; no. 11; pp. 1790 - 1791
Main Authors LAZOVICH, Deann, FORD, Janet, FORSTER, Jean, RILEY, Brigid
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, DC American Public Health Association 01.11.2001
American Journal of Public Health 2001
Subjects
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior
Biological and medical sciences
Citations
Data collection
Demographics
Diversion programs
Epidemiology
Evaluation
Female
Fines & penalties
Health Education
Hennepin County
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Minnesota - epidemiology
Pilot studies
Prevention and actions
Preventive programmes
Public health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Research Brief
Smoking
Smoking cessation
Smoking Cessation - legislation & jurisprudence
Smoking Cessation - psychology
Smoking Cessation - statistics & numerical data
Specific populations (family, woman, child, elderly...)
Teenagers
Tobacco
Underage
USA
Violations
Young people
Minnesota
United States
North America
America
United States > US
Hennepin County Minnesota
Human
Sanitary program
Legislation
Adolescent
Tobacco smoking
Health education
Public health
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Summary:By 1998, 42 states had implemented legislation to prohibit the purchase, possession, or use of tobacco by minors. Since Sep 1998, adolescents who are cited for a first or second tobacco violation in Hennepin County, MN are eligible to attend a tobacco diversion program that allows them to have the misdemeanor removed from their record. The program and the demographic statistics of its attendees is discussed.
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Requests for reprints should be sent to DeAnn Lazovich, PhD, Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, 1300 S 2nd St, #300, Minneapolis, MN 55454 (e-mail: lazovich@epi.umn.edu).
D. Lazovich directed the study, supervised the data collection and analysis, and wrote the manuscript. J. Ford collected and analyzed the data. B. Riley assisted with the study design, data collection, and data analysis. J. Ford, J. Forster, and B. Riley contributed to the interpretation of the results and the writing of the manuscript.
Peer Reviewed
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.91.11.1790