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10 Ways to Limit Tobacco
This comprehensive yet easy-to-use brochure describes 10 legal policy options for local governments to limit tobacco use, sales, and marketing in their communities. Retailer licensing, sponsorship bans, private enforcement, and other laws and ordinances are outlined. Includes a colorful 17" x 11" poster illustrating a tobacco-free city, which acts as a quick guide to policies and laws applicable to different community settings.
A Look at State Rules Affecting Joint Use Agreements
Does your state allow – or possibly even encourage or require – opening school grounds for use by the community? In these lean economic times, it makes sense to find out and take advantage of state laws that may work for your community when considering joint use agreements. These products from NPLAN provide an overview laws addressing the joint use of school facilities in all 50 states.
Additional resources to help you implement smokefree housing policies
The following resources accompany TALC's fact sheet, Creating Smokefree Policies for Affordable Housing in California.
Administrative Enforcement Roadmap
A concern frequently voiced by tobacco control advocates is that existing tobacco control laws are not properly enforced. The best way to increase enforcement of tobacco laws is to eliminate barriers that may be impeding active local enforcement; but without an overall sense of how enforcement is designed to occur, ways around the barriers may be difficult to find.
An Introduction to Land Use Planning for Food System Activists
This article connects the dots between land use planning and healthier communities, and is geared toward food system activists.
ANRF List of Communities with Licensing and Self-Service Display Ordinances
The American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation publishes a list, updated quarterly, of California communities with laws restricting youth access to tobacco. The list identifies communities with a law that restricts self-service tobacco displays or requires a tobacco retailer's license.
Case Studies on the Implementation and Enforcement of Local Tobacco Retailer Licensing Ordinances in California
Although the state of California requires a license to sell tobacco products, the state licensing law is not designed to address public health concerns, such as youth access to tobacco products. Communities across California have attempted to fill the void by adopting local tobacco retailer licensing ordinances.
Changes in the WIC Food Packages: A Toolkit for Partnering with Neighborhood Stores
The selection of foods available through the WIC program recently changed for the first time in 35 years – a change that holds potential to transform the retail food landscape in low-income communities, where liquor stores often proliferate and grocery stores are few.
Checklist for Developing a Joint Use Agreement (JUA)
Many communities lack safe, adequate places for children and their families to exercise and play. Schools might have a variety of recreational facilities—gymnasiums, playgrounds, fields, courts, tracks—but many districts close their property to the public after school hours because of concerns about costs, vandalism, security, maintenance, and liability in the event of injury.
