How can health equity inspire local policy work? What commercial tobacco prevention strategies at the point of sale can promote health equity? How can the policy process build community power? … Read More

The Surgeon General says that exposure to retail marketing encourages smoking and undermines quit attempts. According to the Federal Trade Commission’s reports on marketing expenditures for cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and e-cigarettes, in 2020, the tobacco industry spent $7.3 billion dollars making their presence known in the retail environment.  Each year, you help capture the tobacco industry’s marketing … Read More

States and local communities continue to pass restrictions on the sale of flavored tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. States such as Massachusetts, New Jersey and California have led the way, followed … Read More