AMA strengthens anti-tobacco policies to further protect youth

The American Medical Association (AMA) adopted policies today reaffirming its longtime commitment to preventing tobacco use amongst youth. The policies ask the FDA to require tobacco companies to add color, graphic warning labels to all cigarette packages, and call for raising the minimum legal purchase age of all tobacco products to 21.

According to a study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, raising the minimum legal purchase age of tobacco products to 21 could result in a 12-percent decrease in smoking prevalence amongst the nation’s youth.