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To the Editor: In the October 9 issue, Rigotti et al.¹ report on an evaluation of the effectiveness of enforcing laws that ban tobacco sales to minors as a strategy to reduce tobacco use by adolescents. The authors conclude, "We found no meaningful difference in smoking behavior between communities that implemented enforcement programs and those that did not." This conclusion is intriguing, given the results: the prevalence of 30-day current tobacco use increased significantly over time in the intervention communities (P = 0.01) but not in the control communities (P = 0.93). Contrary to the authors' hypothesis, current tobacco use . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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