Join Counter Tools, with special guests from Indiana and ChangeLab Solutions, for the next webinar in our "Healthy Point of Sale Webinar Series" on Thursday, April 14th, 2022 from 3:00-4:00pm ET! With the introduction of new preemption bills during the pandemic and existing preempted states, tobacco point-of-sale related preemption presents a challenge to policy … Read More
No Menthol Sunday is The Center for Black Health & Equity’s annual faith-based observance day. It is an opportunity to engage faith communities in tough conversations about how menthol and tobacco addiction have robbed community health for generations. The theme for this year is "Fight to the Finish." Learn more and download the toolkit here.
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
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
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
Since the 1950s, the tobacco industry has killed millions of Americans and harmed tens of millions more, all while targeting kids and communities of color, driving up healthcare costs, and … Read More
On Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids' #TakeDownTobacco National Day of Action, youth advocates across the country will come together to call Big Tobacco’s bluff and expose them for who they really are: jokers who gamble with people’s lives. The stakes couldn’t be higher. Big Tobacco is running new PR campaigns claiming they’re the good guys! They say … Read More
The Center for Black Health & Equity’s No Menthol Sunday is an annual opportunity for faith communities to address the detrimental impact tobacco has on Black communities. Each year, they encourage faith leaders to dedicate this day to educating congregants about smoking, vaping and the role of menthol and other flavors. This year’s theme, … Read More
We are thrilled to invite you to participate in CounterTobacco.org's 12th Annual Point-of-Sale Tobacco Marketing Photo Contest! Each year we host this contest to showcase what's happening in the tobacco retail environment all across the country. These images are crucial to educating the public, educating policymakers, and furthering the success of state and local tobacco … Read More
In this webinar, a Public Health Law Center staff attorney will discuss the importance of comprehensive planning and zoning as a platform for advancing commercial tobacco regulation. The presenter will … Read More
Posted May 16, 2024
