PUBPOL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Preterm Birth, Sensitivity Analysis, Nicotine
15 Oct 2017
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Module (cid:1006) lecture (cid:1007): sound policy or nanny. San francisco: ban on toys in fast food meals for children. Fines for not recycling properly: regulated sledding, mandatory helmet laws. State legislature might disagree with local governments choices. Tobacco 21: tobacco 21 is a type of pup law, pup = purchase, use, and possession, policy: retailers who sell tobacco products are prohibited from selling them to persons under the age of 21. Focuses on purchases: persons 18-20 can still possess and use tobacco products, consequences for violating are aimed at the seller (not the user) First tobacco 21 in ann arbor august 4, 2016: ann arbor tobacco 21. Family smoking prevention and tobacco control act of 2009. Informed by decades of multi-disciplinary research: granted fda broad authority over tobacco products, directed fda to re-issue its tobacco rule, banned sale of cigarette packs containing <20 cigarettes and distribution of free samples, other youth access restriction.
