Self-Service Tobacco Displays - Some Facts(With specifics regarding Multnomah County, Oregon) Tobacco hooks them now and kills them later.
Self-Service Tobacco Displays are a common problem in Multnomah County.
Removing Self-Service Tobacco Displays cuts both illegal sales and thefts.
Other tobacco reports. Sources:1. Oregon Health Division, Oregon Department of Human Services, Oregon Tobacco Facts, April 1999.2. Oregon Health Division, Oregon Department of Human Services, Oregon Tobacco Facts, April 1999. 3. C Crump, L Packer, J Gfroerer. Incidence of Initiation of Cigarette Smoking — United States, 1965–1996. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. October 9, 1998;47(39). 837-8. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00055070.htm 4. The Toll of Tobacco in Oregon. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/reports/settlements/toll.php?StateID=OR 5.
Kenneth E Warner, Thomas A Hodgson, Caitlin
E Carroll. Medical costs of smoking in the United States: estimates,
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validity, and their implications. Tobacco Control 1999;8:290-300
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6. This calculation is based on 1996 statistics. Oregon Health Division, Oregon Department of Human Services, Oregon Tobacco Facts, April 1999. 7. http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/issue.htm 8. Oregon Health Division, Oregon Department of Human Services, Oregon Tobacco Facts, April 1999. In 1996, tobacco killed 6,668 Oregonians. 9. 1998 Multnomah County Retailer Survey information is available from Tami Hart-Johnson, (503) 731-4434. 10. Oregon Health Division, Oregon Department of Human Services, Oregon Tobacco Facts, April 1999. 11. 1997 National Retail Theft Trends Report 12. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Executive Summary: The Regulations Restricting the Sale and Distribution of Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco to Protect Children and Adolescents. August 1996. http://www.fda.gov/opacom/campaigns/tobacco/execrule.htmlThis link now leads to a statement on the FDA web site: "On March 21, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lacks the authority to regulate tobacco. Therefore, FDA no longer maintains its Children and Tobacco Website." However,
the original document is available at: http://library.findlaw.com/1996/Aug/1/129437.html
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