Concepts and themes to consider related to policy impact of a state-wide flavoured tobacco ban
Themes | Codes | Sample responses |
Evaluation of flavour policies |
| ‘We also have some data specifically looking at what is the store environment. Have there been changes? Now the caveat to that is that we’re like a policy incubator, right?…We’ve had tobacco 21 has happened locally and statewide. We’ve got this flavor restriction and now one of our supervisors has proposed eliminating the sales of e-cigarettes altogether. So there’s a lot of things that pop in and it makes it really hard to parse out and even evaluate what thing, what levers are changing behavior, even if we do see behavior changing…So there’s just a lot of activity which is good, but not good from a scientific, let’s figure out how to measure this, perspective.’ |
Perceived success of bans and restrictions |
| ‘Overall the compliance has been pretty good and I don’t think we’ve seen tremendous backlash. I think small businesses aren’t super happy about it, but they’re also compliant, which is really appreciated.’ ‘”How do you know if it’s effective?”…I say the reason that the tobacco industry is sitting here is because from the effects of policy…The industry recognizes this is a very effective policy and they're willing to spend a lot of money to protect it.’ |
Lawsuits and industry pushback |
| ‘We really couldn’t go the state level, because we needed to start with the cities and towns and then go up, which is what kind of sucks about the lawsuits, because the industry has such a big presence in our state house. I just would never undermine that. They’re everywhere. Really, they have legislators’ ears and they are the small businesses in all of these cities and towns and counties. They’re the life blood of the system, etc. etc. It was very hard to counter that.’ |