ArticleTobacco control2021
Compliance with San Francisco's flavoured tobacco sales prohibition.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review investigating policy design and implementation of US state and local policy to restrict the sale of flavored tobacco products.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Pooled it
- The Public Health Impacts of Flavored Cigar Bans: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Pooled it
- The Impact of Menthol Cigarette Bans: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review for the impacts of global approaches to regulating electronic nicotine products.Journal of global health · 2023Pooled it
- College Students' Reported Sources of Nicotine Vapes and Cigarettes After California's Restriction on Flavored Tobacco Sales.American journal of preventive medicine · 2026Article
- Effect of tobacco sales bans on retail sales in Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, California, USA: a synthetic difference-in-differences analysis.Tobacco control · 2025Article
- Longitudinal association of exclusive and dual use of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars with cigarette and cigar smoking cessation among U.S. adults - population assessment of tobacco and health study waves 1-5 (2013-2019).Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Education, organizational changes, and enforcement challenges of the 2019 flavored tobacco sales restriction in Massachusetts.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Article
- Cross-sectional patterns and longitudinal transitions of unflavored and flavored cigar use without and with cigarettes among United States adults.Preventive medicine · 2024Article
- Cross-State Border Nicotine Vaping Products Purchase-Early Evidence From State Emergency Sales Restrictions in 2019.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Article
- The Scientific Basis for the Regulation of Flavors in Tobacco Products.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2024Review
- A Longitudinal Analysis of Flavored Cigar Use and Cigar Smoking Cessation Among US Adults.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Article
- Commercial Tobacco Retailers Need to Be Included in Research on Policies Restricting the Sale of Menthol Cigarettes.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Article
- Impacts of Tax and Flavor Tobacco Policies on San Francisco Bay Area Tobacco Prices.Evaluation review · 2023Article
- Hypothetical e-liquid flavor ban and opinions among vape shop retailers in the Greater Los Angeles Area.Tobacco induced diseases · 2023Article
- Policies restricting flavors and non-cigarette tobacco product availability: A study of vape shops in San Francisco and Alameda Counties, California, USA.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- The actual and anticipated effects of restrictions on flavoured electronic nicotine delivery systems: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Nicotine Addiction and Intensity of e-Cigarette Use by Adolescents in the US, 2014 to 2021.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Changes in product labelling practices and the use of flavouring chemical additives in vaping products after enactment of statewide flavour legislation.Tobacco control · 2022Article
- Sources of flavoured e-cigarettes among California youth and young adults: associations with local flavoured tobacco sales restrictions.Tobacco control · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn June 2018, San Francisco voters upheld the first comprehensive prohibition on sales of flavoured tobacco products (all products including menthol, everywhere in the city with no exceptions).
methodsThis paper used data collected by the San Francisco Department of Public Health as part of its implementation and enforcement of San Francisco's city-wide ban on the sale of flavoured tobacco products. Every licensed tobacco retailer was visited and inspected. The San Francisco Department of Public Health and volunteers conducted an educational campaign from September 2018 to December 2018, including emailing all licensed tobacco retailers about the law, mailing a fact sheet poster, conducting four listening sessions and visiting permitted tobacco retailers to educate them about the law and solicit questions.
resultsCompliance inspections started in December 2018, which found that compliance was 17%. Compliance increased in January 2019 and averaged 80% between January 2019 and December 2019. After the phase-in period, all retailers were visited as part of routine inspections. This effort resulted in 80% compliance.
conclusionIncluding retailer education prior to enforcement can result in compliance with a comprehensive ban on the sale of menthol and other flavoured tobacco products.
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