Policy Areas
Retail Environment
marketing of tobacco products drives youth initiation and health disparities–and there are policies to reduce exposure to this harmful marketing.
Tobacco-Free Housing reduces inequitable secondhand exposure to tobacco use at home.
Educational Messaging
drives community readiness for policy change.
Tobacco-Free Outdoors
protect the public from secondhand exposure and promote a tobacco-free norm.
Other Tobacco Products
such as smokeless tobacco, hookah, and e-cigarettes threaten public health gains.
Laws of New York, at the state and local levels, regulate the sales and use of tobacco products.
Youth Initiation
of tobacco use is driven by retail marketing in community stores.
Tobacco Litigation
is a powerful tool available to public health advocates to protect necessary federal, state, and local tobacco controls.
Health Equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to lead a healthier life.
Healthy Food Retail
provides individuals and families with nutritious, accessible food choices close to home.
Cancer Screening
can increase survivorship, reduce health care costs, and help maintain a healthy and productive workforce.
Featured Resource
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In collaboration w/ @nycHealthy, we found that neighborhood cigarette advertising was linked w/ smoking among New Yorkers w/ current depression, not those without. Suggests retail ads may be a stronger environmental trigger among those w/ depression https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1bl5a4pqpjmq9q#.X2Cqpbzf3OQ.twitter
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/big-drop-reported-in-vaping-by-us-teenagers/2608795/
Wow. Menthol cigarettes out in #California. This is pathbreaking leadership on a product that has killed so many Black people. @FDATobacco still being sued to take action. https://twitter.com/fighttobaccola/status/1299475973360975873
BIG NEWS: @GavinNewsom just signed #SB793 into law! It will go into effect on January 1, 2021! Thank you to the organizers and elected officials who made this possible!
We did it!