Youth Targeting By Tobacco Manufacturers Since The Master Settlement Agreement
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 21 (2), 254-263
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.21.2.254
Abstract
The 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) between tobacco manufacturers and forty-six states bans manufacturers from targeting minors through advertising. To determine how youth targeting in magazine cigarette advertisements changed after the MSA, we analyzed magazine readership and cigarette ads in U.S. magazines from 1997 to 2000. In 2000 all three major manufacturers (Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, and Brown and Williamson) failed to comply with the MSA’s youth-targeting ban, selectively increasing their youth targeting. Banning all magazine advertising of cigarettes may be necessary to eliminate youth targeting in magazines.Keywords
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