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Program Activities
RI Tobacco Control Program
3 Capitol Hill, Room 408
Providence, RI 02908-5097
Phone: 401-222-3293
Fax: 401-222-4415
Contact: Seema Dixit

 

 

Tobacco Control Program

Preventing Youth Tobacco Use
Youth & Tobacco Laws

§ 11-9-13  Purchase, sale or delivery of tobacco products to persons under eighteen – Posting notice of law.

§ 11-9-13.1  Cigarette and tobacco vending machines.

§ 11-9-13.5  Responsibility for tobacco or health issues.

§ 11-9-13.7  Signs concerning sales to individuals under age eighteen (18).

§ 11-9-13.8  Prohibitions applicable to license holders and their employees and agents.

§ 11-9-13.10  Prohibition on the distribution of free tobacco products.

§ 11-9-13.15  Penalty for operating without a dealer license.

§ 11-9-14  Use of tobacco by minors.

 

 

 

FACT SHEETS

Youth and Tobacco Use: Current Estimates from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention

The Toll of Tobacco in Rhode Island

The Toll of Tobacco in the United States

Smoking and Kids

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RESOURCES

Rhode Island Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)

"Health Risks Among Rhode Island Public High School Students" - 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Results

Tobacco Control Spending in Rhode Island

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