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The Tobacco Reference Guide
by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 16 Youth access to tobacco

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Quick Trip convenience stores in Tulsa, Oklahoma have "Free - take one" cigarette

samples available.

Rep Mike Synar, CSPAN, April 14, 1994

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In a study of convenience stores in California, 49% illegally sold single cigarettes or

"loosies."

Growing Up Tobacco Free, p. 215

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An estimated three quarters of the approximately one million tobacco outlets in the

United States sell tobacco to minors, garnering over $1 billion in sales each year. The

US tobacco cartel makes $300 million a year in profits from illegal sales to children.

Growing Up Tobacco Free, p. 201 and John Slade, MD, President, STAT, June 23,

1995

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In a 1995 survey funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, U.S. adults strongly

support specific actions to make tobacco less accessible to minors. 94% support

identification and age verification by vendors, 78% support keeping tobacco products

behind counters, and 74% support banning all cigarette vending machines.

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Single cigarette pack self service displays in stores are easily accessible where

customers can help themselves, and are often placed near candy and gum. Tobacco

companies pay a premium, called slotting, often thousands of dollars to individual

retailers to keep their displays in preferred placement areas up front. Only five states

ban these self service displays. One third of all shoplifted items in supermarkets are

cigarettes.

CBS evening news, April 12, 1999

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