Tobacco Control
PHLP has worked on tobacco control policy for more than 10 years. In fact, our model tobacco control policies and laws helped change the public acceptance of smoking in California. Our largest program, the Technical Assistance Legal Center (TALC), funded by the California Department of Health Services, provides California communities with free technical assistance on tobacco control policy issues.
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Publications
PHLP offers a variety of products, including fact sheets, model documents, reports, legal memos, and presentations. You can search our publications according to product type, a specific policy area, or a combination of the two. Choose from the categories in the drop-down menus for each field. You may also enter a keyword in the search box to narrow the results. Click “Search” to display your results.
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.
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.
