Biomaterial Database

Cigarette sales to minors in Colorado. 1990

W Young, and D Walkington, and L Ravesloot

Front Range Community College.

In May of 1990, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, MD introduced model state legislation to restrict tobacco sales to minors. Without definitive actions, such as those suggested here and by Dr. Sullivan, tobacco use among Colorado's youth will continue to have almost unrestricted access to cigarettes and other tobacco products and our population will continue to suffer the harmful effects of tobacco well into the next century. If we act now to curb sales to minors, we will soon reap the benefits of our actions through reduced morbidity and mortality rates from cardiovascular disease, lung and other cancers, emphysema, other obstructive airways diseases and fires. Imagine an entire generation free of tobacco disease injury and death.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D003120	Colorado	State bounded on the north by Wyoming and Nebraska, on the east by Kansas and Nebraska, on the south by New Mexico and Oklahoma, and on the west by Utah.
D003132	Commerce	The interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale, between different countries or between populations within the same country. It includes trade (the buying, selling, or exchanging of commodities, whether wholesale or retail) and business (the purchase and sale of goods to make a profit). (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed, p411, p2005 & p283)	Business,Commercial Sector,Prices,Sales,Vendors,Businesses,Commerces,Commercial Sectors,Price,Sale,Sector, Commercial,Sectors, Commercial,Vendor
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293	Adolescent	A person 13 to 18 years of age.	Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D000367	Age Factors	Age as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or the effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from AGING, a physiological process, and TIME FACTORS which refers only to the passage of time.	Age Reporting,Age Factor,Factor, Age,Factors, Age
D012907	Smoking	Willful or deliberate act of inhaling and exhaling SMOKE from burning substances or agents held by hand.	Smoking Behaviors,Smoking Habit,Behavior, Smoking,Behaviors, Smoking,Habit, Smoking,Habits, Smoking,Smoking Behavior,Smoking Habits