Other Policy
Reports
Policy tools for minimizing public health and environmental effects of cigarette waste – Tobacco Control Legal Consortium and Cigarette Butt Pollution Project. This new document details the impact of cigarette waste, lists an array of policy options that can help municipalities face this issue, and provides policy examples and further resources.
Tobacco free pharmacies action guide – Counter Tobacco. This guide was developed in collaboration with tobacco control stakeholders across the country to help communities prohibit the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies. The guide provides recommendations and tools to help tobacco control advocates build support and develop a policy to prohibit the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies.
Leading health groups call on drug stores and other retailers to follow CVS's example and end tobacco sales – Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. Twenty-six of the nation’s leading public health and medical organizations issued an open letter calling on drug stores and other retailers to follow the example of CVS Caremark and end the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products. “CVS Caremark is absolutely right: The sale of tobacco products – the number one cause of preventable death and disease – is fundamentally inconsistent with a commitment to improving health,” the letter states.
States urge retail giants with pharmacies to stop selling tobacco products – The New York Times. More than two dozen attorneys general sent letters to five of the country’s largest pharmacy retailers, encouraging them to stop selling tobacco products in stores that also have pharmacies. The letters were sent to Rite Aid, Walgreen, Kroger, Safeway and Walmart.
Regulating pharmacy tobacco sales case study: Massachusetts – Center for Public Health Systems Science. This case study details the 80 municipalities in Massachusetts that have adopted tobacco sales restrictions in healthcare institutions such as pharmacies. The report is the second in an ongoing project detailing point of sale tobacco interventions in the United States.
White paper: Time to ban menthol – National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) Columbia. Summarizes the evidence for the role of menthol in increasing smoking initiation and decreasing smokers’ chances of successfully quitting. It summarizes how menthol is disproportionately marketed to and favored by young people, blacks and women.
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International
European politicians back tougher anti-tobacco rules (European Union) – Reuters. European Union politicians voted for a new anti-tobacco law that requires cigarette makers to increase the size of health warnings on packets and regulates electronic cigarettes for the first time, starting in 2016. Cigarettes and other products will have to carry graphic picture and text warnings covering 65% of the front and back of packets. The rules ban combustible tobacco products containing flavors such as fruit or vanilla, and will ban menthol flavoring effective in 2020. Click here to learn more.
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