Store tobacco policies: a survey of store managers, California, 1996-1997
Zipora Weinbauma, Valerie Quinna, Todd Rogersb, April Roeselera
a California
Department of Health Services, Tobacco Control Section, 601 North 7th
Street, Sacramento, California 95814, USA, b Public Health
Consultant, 101 First Street, Suite 426, Los Altos, California 94022, USA
Correspondence to: Dr Z Weinbaum, California Department of Health Services, Maternal and Child Health Branch, Epidemiology and Evaluation Section, 714 P Street, Room 476, Sacramento, California 95814, USA. email: zweinbau{at}dhs.ca.gov
Received 19 June 1998; Revision received 2 March 1999;
Accepted 3 April 1999
OBJECTIVE
To identify
store tobacco policies and retailer perception and beliefs that may
have contributed to changes in compliance with youth access laws in California.
DESIGNIn the winter
of 1996-7, a cross sectional, follow up telephone survey was conducted
of California store managers whose stores were anonymously surveyed for
illegal tobacco sales in the summer of 1996 (that is, 1996 Youth
Tobacco Purchase Survey, YTPS).
SETTINGA simple
random sample of stores from a list of California stores likely to sell
tobacco, used in the 1996 YTPS.
PARTICIPANTS334
managers (77%) of the 434 stores surveyed in 1996 responded to the
survey. After eliminating stores that stopped selling tobacco or were
under new management or ownership, 320 responses of store managers were
included in the analysis. The stores were analysed by type of
ownership: chain, which included corporate managed (n = 61); franchise
owned (n = 56); and independent (n = 203).
MAIN OUTCOME
MEASURESResponses of store managers were linked
with the 1996 YTPS outcomes. Manager responses were compared by
2 tests. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to
identify store factors associated with illegal tobacco sales.
RESULTSA lower
likelihood of illegal sales rate was associated with the chain stores
when compared with the independent stores (odds ratio (OR) = 0.4, 95%
confidence interval (CI) 0.2 to 0.9). A lower likelihood of illegal
tobacco sales was found in stores that implemented tobacco related
activities in the previous year such as changing tobacco displays (OR = 0.5, 95% CI 0.2 to 0.9) or adding new warning signs (OR = 0.7, 95% CI
0.4 to 1.2). Store managers' beliefs that youth were sent to their
stores to do compliance checks also resulted in a lower likelihood of
illegal sales (OR = 0.7, 95% CI 0.4 to 1.1).
CONCLUSIONSStore
tobacco youth access policies, and managers' beliefs about the extent
of youth access enforcement in the community, are important in reducing
illegal tobacco sales to minors.
Keywords: legislation; retail stores; youth access
© 1999 by Tobacco Control
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