There are four traditional “pillars” of tobacco control and prevention policy:
- promoting clean indoor air (protecting nonsmokers from environmental tobacco smoke)
- reducing/eliminating tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship
- raising the price of tobacco products by raising the excise tax imposed at the federal and state levels. A few localities are also able to tax tobacco products
- decreasing/eliminating youth’s access to tobacco products
More recently, following former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. David Kessler’s unsuccessful efforts to assert authority over tobacco products, a fifth policy pillar has been added:
- increasing government regulation/oversight of the tobacco industry
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