Age Restricted Location Policies: A Potential Strategy for Advancing the Tobacco Endgame

Affiliations

¹ Megan E. Roberts, Amy K. Ferketich, and Vitoria Borges Spinola are with the College of Public Health, Ohio State University, Columbus. Joseph G. Lee is with the College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. Meghan E. Morean and Grace Kong are with the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Peter F. Craigmile is with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY. Rachel C. Ceasar is with the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Micah L. Berman is with the College of Public Health and the Mortiz College of Law, Ohio State University, Columbus.

Editorial

Megan E Roberts et al. Am J Public Health. 2025 May.

. 2025 May;115(5):673-677.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2025.308031.

¹ Megan E. Roberts, Amy K. Ferketich, and Vitoria Borges Spinola are with the College of Public Health, Ohio State University, Columbus. Joseph G. Lee is with the College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. Meghan E. Morean and Grace Kong are with the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Peter F. Craigmile is with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY. Rachel C. Ceasar is with the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Micah L. Berman is with the College of Public Health and the Mortiz College of Law, Ohio State University, Columbus.

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