Cigarette sales to minors in Colorado.

In May of 1990, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, MD introduced model state legislation to restrict tobacco sales to minors. Without definitive actions, such as those suggested here and by Dr. Sullivan, tobacco use among Colorado's youth will continue to have almost unrestricted access to cigarettes and other tobacco products and our population will continue to suffer the harmful effects of tobacco well into the next century. If we act now to curb sales to minors, we will soon reap the benefits of our actions through reduced morbidity and mortality rates from cardiovascular disease, lung and other cancers, emphysema, other obstructive airways diseases and fires. Imagine an entire generation free of tobacco disease injury and death.