Focuses on actions and strategies needed to prevent smoking in young Americans. Tripling of the use of smokeless tobacco by adolescents from 1970 to 1994; Halt in efforts to reduce tobacco use; Studies on the capability of young people of making rational choices; Need to make tobacco products less accessible to young people; Supporting social factors which discourage tobacco consumption.

Citation
Richard J. Bonnie & Barbara S. Lynch, Time to Up the Ante in the War on Smoking, Issues in Science & Technology 33–37 (August, 1994).