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LCTFC Community Education Event & Meeting | November 2024

  • Lake County Tobacco Free Coalition
  • Nov 21, 2024
  • 2 min read

 Thursday, November 21 2024 @ 1:30pm 

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This month's coalition meeting was in conjunction with our Community Education Event: Changing our Tobacco Retail Landscape


At the event we presented the findings from the 2024 Retail Tobacco Audits conducted in Lake County. After the presentation the attendees divided into 3 groups to discuss ways to improve our tobacco retail landscape. Each group was assigned a facilitator and a note-taker. The groups had 30 minutes to discuss their assigned question and then at the end each group reported their suggestions. The questions discussed were:


1. The United States has steadily expanded tobacco protections since 1964, resulting in less smoke in the air and fewer advertisements of tobacco products. However, these protections, which most Americans now take for granted, are not evenly distributed across the country or even across neighborhoods.


The availability and marketing of commercial tobacco products on a neighborhood level impact these disparities. Data from the 500 largest cities in the United States shows that census tracts with the highest smoking rates are also the ones with a greater density of tobacco retailers. These census tracts, which generally face multiple disadvantages, are also the ones with lower median household incomes and a greater proportion of people of color.


What are three (3) potential policies we can work on to improve health equity at the Point of Sale in Lake County?

2. A correspondence to Dr. Prue Talbot, Department of Molecular, Cell, and Systems Biology at the University of California Riverside discusses emerging electronic cigarette devices being turned into functional gaming devices. These devices feature high-definition displays with various built-in games such as Pac-Man, Tetris, and more. One device with these games can be purchased for $17.95 from US retailers and online as of May 2024. Additionally, some devices have smartphone-like features such as Bluetooth, voice recognition, and customizable displays.


What are the key issues to include in a potential ordinance that will regulate the type of devices that are sold and available to youth in Lake County?

3. States and communities across the country are increasingly passing a wide variety of policies designed to restrict the retail availability and marketing of tobacco products and ultimately lessen the inequitable burdens of tobacco-related death and disease. Regularly conducting store assessments can be a powerful way to see how the retailer landscape changes over time, particularly when a Point-of-Sale policy goes into effect.


A. Should we conduct a public opinion poll as another source of data to structure Point of Sale policies?


B. What three (3) questions should we include in a public opinion poll?

Notes:  Social media & website information

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·         Social Media for Tobacco Free Lake County Indiana…

 

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Thank you for joining us and we look forward to working with you!

Next meeting will be Wednesday, December 18, 2024

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