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| YAA | (Ontario) Youth Action Alliance |
| YATI | (Ontario) Youth Advocacy Training Institute |
| YDS | (Ontario) Youth Development Specialist, general title for a tobacco control program leader who trains youth in tobacco control issues |
| YETI | (Ontario) Youth Engaged in Tobacco-Free Initiatives |
| Young Adult | a person who is older than an adolescent but younger than middle-aged, variously defined as 15 to 24, 18 to 24, 20 to 24 years old, etc., a group which in any case is at risk for smoking behaviour (see also Leave The Pack Behind (LTPB))Reference: Zhang B, Cohen J, Ferrence R, Rehm J. The impact of tobacco tax cuts on smoking initiation among Canadian young adults. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2006;30(6):474-479. |
| Youth | collective term for young persons, sometimes defined as 12 to 17 years old, a group that is at risk for smoking initiation |
| Youth Access | the relative ease or difficulty with which underage persons acquire tobacco products, which can be controlled by policies on minimum age and priceReference: Ontario Tobacco Research Unit. The Tobacco Control Environment: Ontario and Beyond. [Special Reports: Monitoring and Evaluation Series, 2007-2008 (Vol. 14, No. 1)]. Youth Access to Tobacco Products. Monitoring Update. Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, Toronto, 2008. Available at: http://www.otru.org/pdf/14mr/14mr_no1_6.pdf; accessed Feb. 11, 2009. |
| Youth Access Laws | legislation intended to protect underage persons from the harms caused by tobacco products, e.g., making it illegal to sell or supply tobacco products to persons under a certain age or prohibiting youth from entering premises where tobacco products are sold (see also Minimum Age Law)Reference: Ahmad S. Closing the youth access gap: the projected health benefits and cost savings of a national policy to raise the legal smoking age to 21 in the United States. Health Policy 2005;75(1):74-84. |
| Youth Action Alliance (YAA) | an Ontario program for peer-led youth groups dedicated to tobacco control under the Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy; YAA lost most of its funding at the end of August 2009, and is expected to lose all of its funding by the end of December 2009. |
| Youth Advocacy Training Institute (YATI) | an OntarioLung Association program to help youth develop tobacco control knowledge and skills http://www.yationlung.ca/ |
| Youth Engaged in Tobacco-Free Initiatives (YETI) | youth groups from various Ontario public health units advocating for a healthy, happy and tobacco-free lifestyle as part of the Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy http://www.smoke-fx.com/local/thunderbay |
| Youth Possession Laws | controversial legislation currently in effect in Alberta and Nova Scotia assigning culpability to underage persons for buying or being in possession of tobacco products as opposed to legislation that places the onus of responsibility on the seller or supplier (see also Minimum Age Law)Reference: Pyra Management Consulting Services, Inc. Is it Making a Difference? An Evaluation of Nova Scotia’s Youth Tobacco Possession Law. Smoke Free Kings, Halifax, June 2005. Available at: http://smokefreekings.org/Youth_Posession_Study.pdf; accessed Feb. 18, 2009. |
| Youth Smoking Survey (YSS) | since 1994, Health Canada-sponsored survey of Canadian students and their parents, formerly including grades 5 through 9 but since 2008-2009 including grades 6 through 12, that provides data on national prevalence, purchasing behaviour and the effect of tobacco marketing on youthAvailable at: https://www.yss.uwaterloo.ca/ysssite_app/controller/index.cfm; accessed Feb. 17, 2009. |
| Youth Tobacco Vortal Project (YTVP) | an Ontario-based program that teaches youth about tobacco control via the Internet http://www.smoke-fx.com/local/hpechu/tobacco.shtml |
| YPLL | Years of Potential Life Lost, synonym for Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL), e.g., an estimate of extra years of life a deceased smoker would have had if he or she had not smoked tobacco products |
| YSS | Youth Smoking Survey |
| YTVP | (Ontario-based) Youth Tobacco Vortal Project |
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The OTRU Glossary of Tobacco Control provides brief definitions of over 1,000 tobacco control terms, abbreviations and acronyms. Definitions are based on many sources including dictionaries, legislative texts, websites, reports, books, peer-reviewed journal articles and communications from tobacco control experts. A single definition often reflects material from more than one source.
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