Taxing diet pills might keep them out of teens hands [QpTTi1fIuya]

Taxing diet pills might keep them out of teens hands [QpTTi1fIuya]

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Over-the-counter dietary supplements are potentially dangerous They’re not prescreened for safety or effectiveness by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before they hit the market Supplement use leads to as many as 23,000 emergency room visits each year, and a third of these visits among girls and women result from diet pills, according to a 2015 study Teens are particularly vulnerable to the deceptive advertising and false promises made by many weight-loss products, says S. Bryn Austin of Harvard Chan School Austin co-authored a new study that found that taxing diet pills and powders could decrease purchases and help keep them out of the hands of teens The study found that a 20% tax on diet pills could lead to a 5.2% decrease in purchases of these products, a 17.5% decrease in families with children ages 12-17, and a 10.3% decrease among households with a daughter present S. Bryn Austin, professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences