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to cover the administration of an college,or completed college or ALA 2014 TRL A grade,and 68.9% <br /> enforcement program and regular more). (1445)students lived in jurisdictions <br /> compliance checks in each store.An with D or F grades.Sex and ethnic <br /> A grade also required(1)an annual Statistical Analysis distributions were similar in A and <br /> renewal of this local license; (2)a D or F jurisdictions,but students in <br /> provision that any violation of local, Unconditional logistic regression models were used to evaluate the A jurisdictions were more likely to <br /> state,or federal law is a violation come from less-educated households <br /> of the license;and(3)a graduated associations of living in a jurisdiction with (Table 1).Unadjusted prevalence <br /> penalty system for violators, r ALA grade A versus D or F and initiation rates for each tobacco <br /> including financial deterrents such TRL ordinance with baseline ever product were lower in jurisdictions <br /> as fines or other penalties,including and past 30 day use of cigarettes, with A than with D or F grades, <br /> license revocation or suspension.15 e-cigarettes,hookah,cigars,or use with the exception of new initiation <br /> of any of these tobacco products in of hookah with past 30-day use. <br /> The remaining study jurisdictions separate models.Models were also fit Initiation rates were substantial <br /> were assigned an F grade(8)or a to evaluate associations of ALA grade among never tobacco product <br /> D grade(1).An F grade indicated with the initiation of each product, <br /> with or without past 30-day use.In users at baseline,in particular for <br /> either(1)no local ordinance p y e-cigarette use.Both prevalence and <br /> mandating a license fee or(2)a fee models used to evaluate the initiation initiation rates of past 30-day tobacco <br /> insufficient to fund administrative of use of each tobacco product product use generally did not exceed <br /> and compliance checks as well as between baseline and follow-up,the 10%for any product. <br /> none of the 3 other provisions for an sample was restricted to baseline <br /> A grade.The jurisdiction with the D never users of that product.Odds For baseline prevalence of ever and <br /> grade had a licensing fee that was ratios(ORs)and 95%confidence past 30-day use of cigarette and <br /> insufficient to cover administration intervals(CIs)were used to estimate e-cigarette ever use,and to a lesser <br /> and compliance checks,but it had the association of each tobacco degree for prevalence of cigar use, <br /> at least 1 of the other 3 provisions product use with an ALA grade. jurisdictions with A grades had <br /> listed above that were needed for an All models were adjusted for sex, generally lower use rates than D or <br /> A grade.The D and F communities ethnicity,highest parental education, F jurisdictions(Supplemental Fig 3). <br /> were collapsed for data analysis, and baseline age,factors that have However,within both grade groups, <br /> because the insufficient annual fee been associated both with e-cigarette there was considerable variability in <br /> is a central feature of regulation to use and cigarette use in previous prevalence rates across jurisdictions <br /> reduce youth access.7,15 No study studies.13,14 Each tobacco product— for all tobacco products.Rates in <br /> jurisdiction in this sample had B or C specific model was also adjusted for individual jurisdictions had wide Cls <br /> grades corresponding to TRL policies a baseline history of use of any other (results not shown)because of small <br /> of intermediate quality.15 tobacco product,because there was sample size.Rates of tobacco product <br /> clustering of the tobacco product initiation at follow-up were also <br /> ALA assigned grades to other outcomes.13 A missing indicator generally quite variable across the <br /> categories of tobacco policy(smoke- category for covariates and any other jurisdictions within both A and D or F <br /> free housing policy,smoke-free tobacco product use was included grades(Supplemental Fig 4). <br /> outdoor policy,and overall tobacco where appropriate.Additionally,all At baseline,participants living in the <br /> policy).15 These policies,which are models included a random effect for 4 jurisdictions with A grades had <br /> not specific to youth tobacco product community to account for similarities lower odds of ever using a cigarette <br /> access,were not associated with among subjects within jurisdictions. (OR 0.61;95%CI 0.41-0.90)and <br /> tobacco product use in this study,and In a sensitivity analysis,models were of past 30-day use(OR 0.51;95% <br /> results are not presented. further adjusted for time between CI 0.29-0.89)than participants in <br /> baseline and follow-up questionnaire 10 D-to F-grade jurisdictions,after <br /> Covariates completion.Statistical analyses were adjusting for so cio demographic <br /> Self-administered questionnaires based on 2-sided hypotheses tested covariates and other tobacco product <br /> completed by parents of at a 0.05 level of significance,using use at baseline(Fig 1). <br /> SAS 9.4(SAS Institute,Inc,Cary,NC). <br /> participants were used to assess Living in A-grade jurisdictions <br /> socio demographic characteristics, was associated with lower odds <br /> including sex,ethnicity(Hispanic, RESULTS of initiation of cigarette use <br /> non-Hispanic white,other),age at between baseline and the follow-up <br /> baseline,and parental education Of the 2097 participants,31.1% questionnaire(OR 0.67;95%CI <br /> (completed high school or less,some (652)lived in a jurisdiction with an 0.45-0.99[Fig 2]).The risks of <br /> Downloaded from www.aappublications.org/news by guest on May 7,2019 <br /> PEDIATRICS Volume 143,number 2,February 2019 3 <br />