Retail policy domains and options (N=46)*
| States reporting activity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2014 | |||
| Plan/proposed (%) | Passed (%) | Plan/proposed (%) | Passed (%) | |
| E-cigarettes Policies that may be used to regulate electronic smoking devices | ||||
| ▸ Regulate minimum age to buy e-cigarettes and related products | – | – | 17 | 76 |
| ▸ Ban self-service displays for e-cigarettes | – | – | 15 | 26 |
| ▸ Require licensing for e-cigarette sales | – | – | 30 | 11 |
| ▸ Establish a tax on e-cigarettes | – | – | 39 | 7 |
| ▸ Regulate where e-cigarettes are sold (eg, retailer type, youth locales) | – | – | 9 | 0 |
| Tobacco retailer density and licensing Policies that affect the presence of retailers by reducing (or restricting) the number, location, density or types of tobacco retail outlets | ||||
| ▸ Establish or increasing licensing fees | 9 | 57 | 13 | 63 |
| ▸ Prohibit tobacco sales in locations youth frequent | 15 | 17 | 28 | 7 |
| ▸ Require certain distance between tobacco retailers | 17 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| ▸ Restrict retailers in certain zones (eg, banning in residential zones) | 11 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| ▸ Prohibit tobacco sales at certain establishment types (eg, pharmacies) | 9 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| ▸ Limit or capping the total number of licenses in a specific area | 13 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| ▸ Limit number of hours or days in which tobacco can be sold | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Non-tax price increases Policies that use non-tax strategies to reduce consumption by raising the price of tobacco products | ||||
| ▸ Establish cigarette minimum price laws | 7 | 46 | 9 | 46 |
| ▸ Ban price discounting/multipack options | 9 | 0 | 20 | 0 |
| ▸ Ban distribution of coupons† | – | – | 7 | 7 |
| ▸ Ban redemption of coupons† | – | – | 13 | 0 |
| ▸ Ban use of coupons† | 2 | 9 | – | – |
| ▸ Require disclosure for manufacturer to retailer incentives | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| ▸ Establish mitigation fees (eg, a fee to clean up cigarette litter) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Product placement Policies that limit how, where, and when tobacco products are displayed in the retail environment | ||||
| ▸ Ban self-service displays for OTPs | 13 | 20 | 13 | 46 |
| ▸ Ban product displays (eg, tobacco behind opaque shelving) | 13 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| ▸ Restrict the number of products that can be displayed | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| ▸ Limit times during which products are visible (eg, after school hours) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Advertising and promotion Policies that limit the permitted times, placement, and/or manner of tobacco retail advertising | ||||
| ▸ Content-neutral ad restrictions (eg, restrict to 15% of window area) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| ▸ Limit placement of ads at certain locations (eg, 1000 ft of schools) | 4 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| ▸ Limit placement of outdoor store ads | 4 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| ▸ Limit the placement of ads within the store (eg, near cash register) | 4 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| ▸ Limit manner of ads (certain types eg, sandwich board style ads) | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| ▸ Limit the times advertising is permitted (eg, after school hours) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Health warnings Policies that use health warnings, cessation services information, or other resources to alert customers in the retail environment. | ||||
| ▸ Require graphic warnings at the point of sale | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| ▸ Require the posting of quit line information in tobacco retail stores | – | – | 9 | 2 |
| Other approaches Miscellaneous policies for the retail environment | ||||
| ▸ Raise the minimum legal sale age (MLA) to buy tobacco products | – | – | 28 | 9 |
| ▸ Require minimum pack size for OTPs | 2 | 2 | 13 | 7 |
| ▸ Ban flavoured OTPs | 22 | 2 | 26 | 4 |
‘–’ indicates that question was not asked in the specific wave.
*CT and VA did not interview in 2012; OH and PA did not interview in 2014.
†After learning that some states had or were working on coupon ‘distribution’ bans in 2012, and others were working on coupon ‘redemption’ bans, we split ‘banning use of coupons’ into these separate options in 2014.