Retail Marketing
Tobacco companies spend billions of dollars each year marketing their deadly products in community stores. Through rigid contracts and substantial payments to stores, tobacco manufacturers ensure that retailers act as a conduit for Industry marketing. Consequently, ubiquitous retail marketing drives tobacco use by providing environmental cues to use tobacco, attracting new youth users, and triggering impulse purchases by users attempting to quit.
Learn more about the problem of retail tobacco marketing by viewing our resources below. For interventions that reduce exposure to tobacco marketing, visit our Point of Sale Policies page.
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#PressRelease We applaud @AlbanyNYLeg @realbte @mpeterforalbany @joanneecunningh for passing measures last night to protect residents of multi-unit housing from the harmful effects of exposure to secondhand smoke.
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The fight to stop menthol cigarettes is gaining momentum. @nytimes highlights progress at the national, state and local levels.
@FDATobacco must ban menthol cigarettes and stop Big Tobacco's deadly, decades-long targeting of Black communities and kids. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/22/health/methol-smoking-ban.html