PMID: 11343500May 18, 2001Paper

State and federal compliance with the Synar Amendment: federal fiscal year 1998

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
J R DiFranza

Abstract

The Synar Amendment requires states and territories to enact a law prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors and to enforce that law in a manner that could reasonably be expected to decrease the availability of tobacco to minors. To determine if the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and applicant states and territories are complying with the Synar Amendment. Block grant applications from 59 states and territories describing activities during the federal fiscal year 1998. Whether applicants had enacted a tobacco sales law without loopholes, conducted enforcement inspections, penalized violators, and conducted a valid statewide survey with violation rates below the permissible threshold, and whether DHHS actions were consistent with the statutory requirements of the Synar Amendment. Three applicants had laws containing loopholes, 6 failed to conduct enforcement inspections, 7 failed to prosecute violators, 2 failed to conduct a valid survey, and 10 failed to demonstrate compliance with violation rate goals. Fifteen applicants failed 1 or more criteria and 8 were ultimately penalized by DHHS. No measurable progress in reducing violation rates was reported by 30 states, with 16 reporting an increase during the previous...Continue Reading

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