Teenagers Buy Smokeless Tobacco Products

Fewer teens are smoking cigarettes these days, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Spartanburg, 73 percent of ninth- and 11th-grade youth surveyed thought it was "wrong for youth their age to smoke cigarettes," and 88.3 percent thought it was a "great risk" to smoke one or more packs per day, according to the 2010 youth survey conducted by the Spartanburg Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission.

Pictorial Warnings Fail to Deter Tobacco Use

The pictorial health warnings on the packets of tobacco products may be considered as an important tool to spread anti-tobacco messages, but a recent survey conducted in the State revealed that such health warnings on packages have little impact on the users. Among those who noticed the health warnings on the packages, only 37 per cent of cigarette smokers thought of quitting smoking cheap Karelia cigarettes in Assam, according to a survey conducted by Global Adult Tobacco Survey, India. Among the bidi smokers only 11 per cent and 14 per cent of smokeless tobacco users thought about stopping the use of such products because of the warning labels on respective packages.

Eliminate Outdoor Tobacco Ads

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, adopted last year, grants the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco products. Parts of this law have taken effect, as recently as last Tuesday, to help protect youth from the sale and marketing of discount cigarettes Marlboro, Virginia and smokeless tobacco.