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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, <br />Unconditional logistic regression <br />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 <br />associations of living in a jurisdiction <br />with Table 1).Unadjusted prevalence <br />penalty system for violators, <br />r <br />ALA grade A versus D or F <br />and initiation rates for each tobacco <br />including financial deterrents such <br />TRL ordinance with baseline ever <br />product were lower in jurisdictions <br />as fines or other penalties,including <br />and past 30 day use of cigarettes, <br />with A than with D or F grades, <br />license revocation or suspension. <br />15 e-cigarettes,hookah,cigars,or use <br />with the exception of new initiation <br />of any of these tobacco products in <br />of hookah with past 30-day use. <br />The remaining study jurisdictions separate models.Models were also fit <br />Initiation rates were substantial <br />were assigned an F grade(8)or a to evaluate associations of ALA grade <br />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 <br />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 <br />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. <br />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. <br />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. <br />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). <br />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 <br />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 <br />based on 2-sided hypotheses tested covariates and other tobacco product <br />completed by parents of <br />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, <br />RESULTS <br />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