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Mote, Jr., are chair and vice chair, respectively, of the National Research Council. www.national-academies.org PREPUBLICATION COPY: UNCORRECTED PROOFS Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Public Health Implications of Raising the Minimum Age of Legal Access to Tobacco Products COMMITTEE ON THE PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF RAISING THE MINIMUM AGE FOR PURCHASING TOBACCO PRODUCTS RICHARD J. BONNIE (Chair), Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, Director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy, University of Virginia ANTHONY J. ALBERG, Blatt Ness Distinguished Endowed Chair in Oncology, Professor, Public Health Sciences, Interim Director of Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina REGINA BENJAMIN, NOLA.com/Times Picayune Endowed Chair in Public Health Sciences, Xavier University, New Orleans JONATHAN CAULKINS, Professor, Operations Research and Public Health Policy, Heinz College of Public Policy and Management, Operations Research Department, Carnegie Mellon University BONNIE HALPERN-FELSHER, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Director of Research, Associate Director of Adolescent Medicine Fellowship Program, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Stanford University SWANNIE JETT, Executive Director, Florida Department of Health in Seminole County HARLAN JUSTER, Director, Bureau of Tobacco Control, New York State Department of Health JONATHAN D. KLEIN, Associate Executive Director, Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence for Children and Secondhand Smoke, American Academy of Pediatrics PAULA M. LANTZ, Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University ROBIN MERMELSTEIN, Director of the Institute for Health Research and Policy, Professor of Psychology, Clinical Professor of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois, Chicago RAFAEL MEZA, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan PATRICK O’MALLEY, Research Professor, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan KIMBERLY THOMPSON, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Global Health, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, President, Kid Risk, Inc. Consultants THEODORE R. HOLFORD, Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics) and Professor of Statistics, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University DAVID T. LEVY, Professor, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center MARIA RODITIS, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Adolescent Medicine, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University IOM Staff KATHLEEN STRATTON, Study Director LESLIE Y. KWAN, Research Associate BETTINA RITTER, Research Assistant ANNA MARTIN, Senior Program Assistant DORIS ROMERO, Financial Associate ROSE MARIE MARTINEZ, Senior Board Director, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice PREPUBLICATION COPY: UNCORRECTED PROOFS v Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Public Health Implications of Raising the Minimum Age of