Uncategorized – Counter Tobacco

ASPiRE Center Releases New POS Reports

Licensing, Policy Advocacy, Retailer Density, Store Assessments, Stores Near Schools, Uncategorized
August 28, 2020

The ASPiRE Center, a National Cancer Institute-funded collaborative of tobacco control researchers, practitioners, and legal experts, recently released two extensive reports on commercial tobacco at the point of sale. Using data from interviews with program managers and coalition members from Community Advisory Boards in 30 cities, as well as an online survey of state tobacco … Read More

Counter Tobacco Podcast Episode 13: A Look at the Federal Flavor Ban & Tobacco 21

Cigarettes, Disparities, E-Cigarettes, FDA, Flavors (including Menthol), Podcast, Tobacco21, Uncategorized
February 25, 2020

Over the past few months, we’ve seen a lot of changes to the regulatory environment surrounding tobacco products. This episode highlights the new federal flavor ban and Tobacco 21 law, as well as what some states and local jurisdictions have done to advance tobacco control and what your locality could do to support strong tobacco control. Listen … Read More

November 2019 News and Research Roundup

Advertising Restictions, Cigarettes, Disparities, Displays/Display Ban, E-Cigarettes, Flavors (including Menthol), International, Licensing, Pharmacies, Uncategorized
November 26, 2019

Welcome to CounterTobacco.org’s “News and Research Roundup!” Each month we post a summary of the latest research, reports, and news stories on counteracting tobacco product sales and marketing at the point of sale (POS). Keeping up with what’s happening in the POS movement all across the country can help you choose policies and strategies that work best … Read More

August 2018 News and Research Roundup

Cigarettes, Disparities, Displays/Display Ban, E-Cigarettes, Media Campaign, Pharmacies, Store Assessments, Tobacco21, Uncategorized, Youth
August 28, 2018

December 2017 News and Research Roundup

Advertising Restictions, Disparities, E-Cigarettes, FDA, Flavors (including Menthol), Licensing, Little cigars/Cigarillos, Retailer Density, Smokeless Tobacco and SNUS, Stores Near Schools, Tobacco21, Uncategorized, Vape Shops, Youth
December 14, 2017

New York City Passes Hookah Legislation

Uncategorized Tags: hookah, Licensing, NYC, policy
October 12, 2017

Contributed by Luis Torres, MPH, of New York City Treats Tobacco On September 27th, 2017 the New York City Council continued its strong push towards protecting the health of all New Yorkers by voting to pass three new bills addressing Shisha/Hookah that will now be passed on for Mayor Bill de Blasio to sign into … Read More

Announcing the 2017 Photo Contest

Uncategorized
October 5, 2017

Today marks the start of CounterTobacco’s 6th annual Photo Contest! The tobacco industry spends nearly $1 million every hour to market their deadly products. The Surgeon General has concluded that exposure to this retail marketing encourages smoking and undermines quit attempts. And it’s happening in YOUR community. Each year, you help capture the tobacco industry’s marketing tactics at the point-of-sale, and … Read More

March 2017 News and Research Roundup

Cigarettes, Disparities, E-Cigarettes, Flavors (including Menthol), Minimum pack size, Minimum price, Non-Tax Price Increases, Pharmacies, Product Packaging, Store Assessments, Tobacco21, Uncategorized, Youth
March 16, 2017

Counter Tobacco’s 5th Annual Photo Contest is Here!

Uncategorized
August 8, 2016

The tobacco industry spends $1 million every hour to market their deadly products, a total which amounted to $8.6 billion spent at the point of sale in 2013. The Surgeon General has concluded that exposure to this retail marketing encourages smoking and undermines quit attempts. And it’s happening in YOUR community. Now is your chance to help document and … Read More

Celebrate with us!

Uncategorized
December 3, 2015

CounterTobacco.org is close to reaching our 50,000th visitor on the site, and we want to celebrate this milestone by thanking all of our users – the practitioners who are out there working to counteract tobacco sales and marketing at the point of sale, fighting the “War in the Store,” raising awareness about the problem, and … Read More

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