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Tobacco compliance check in Hong Kong

Author(s) -

Ming-yue Kan,

Maggie Lau

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

nicotine and tobacco research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.338

H-Index - 113

eISSN - 1469-994X

pISSN - 1462-2203

DOI - 10.1080/14622200701824992

Subject(s) - compliance (psychology) , enforcement , business , tobacco use , environmental health , law enforcement , smoking prevention , advertising , medicine , law , smoking cessation , psychology , political science , social psychology , population , pathology

We examined tobacco retailers' rates of compliance to the law forbidding the sale of tobacco products to persons under 18 years of age in Hong Kong. The overall compliance rate was only 18.9%. The low compliance rate may be attributed to poor enforcement of the youth access law. Overseas experiences show that regular checking is an effective way to evaluate the compliance of tobacco retailers to restrictions on youth access to tobacco. Periodic tobacco compliance checks should be adopted in Hong Kong to exert pressure on law enforcement bodies and tobacco retailers.

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