We evaluate the effect of the first six years of the Food and Drug Administration's compliance check program, which includes underage buyer “sting” inspections, on youth cigarette purchasing and tobacco use patterns. Abouk and Adams (2017b) studied the first three years of the program using Monitoring the Future and found evidence that the program changed purchasing patterns and decreased cigarette use among underage 12th graders. We nearly triple the number of inspections we evaluate by studying the first six years of the program and find mostly null results. We also find null results when broadening the sample to include all underage youth and when using two additional data sources (National Youth Tobacco Survey and Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System). We speculate possible reasons for the program's ineffectiveness, including that underage decoys are prohibited from both lying about their age and using fake identification.

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重新审视烟草零售商合规性检查对青年烟草使用的影响

我们评估了食品药品监督管理局（FDA）符合性检查计划的前六年，包括未成年购买者““”检查对青少年卷烟购买和烟草使用方式的影响。Abouk和Adams（2017b）使用《监测未来》研究了该计划的前三年，发现证据表明该计划改变了12岁以下未成年人的购买方式并减少了卷烟的使用。通过研究该计划的前六年，我们将检查评估的次数几乎增加了三倍，并且发现的结果几乎没有。当将样本扩大到所有未成年青年时，以及使用两个附加数据源（国家青年烟草调查和青年风险行为监测系统）时，我们也没有发现任何结果。我们推测了该程序无效的可能原因，