Dear Editorial Board, I disagree with your March 15 editorial “Proposed law to raise smoking age ineffective, unnecessary.” First, raising the minimum sales age for tobacco products to 21 is an evidence-based strategy for reducing the prevalence of tobacco consumption. Ninety-five percent of adult smokers start before age 21, when the brain is most susceptible […]
Author Archives: Travis Meyers
Letter to the Editor: Hypocrisy should be avoided when addressing terrorism
Dear editor, Your April 30 article reported that former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, in a campus lecture, criticized the United Nations for failing to “urgently confront terrorism after the Pan Am 103 bombing.” Indeed, the Dec. 21,1988 murder of 270 civilians was terrible and inexcusable. However, Bolton likely neglected to mention that on July 3, […]
Submission: Support of new bill would reduce tobacco-related diseases
On Feb. 26, Senator Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) and Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) introduced Senate Bill 591 in the California State Legislature. The main provision of SB 591, also known as the California Tobacco Tax Act of 2015, is to raise the current tax on tobacco products of 87 cents per pack by $2. The UCLA […]