Open AccessThe Haverstraw Experience: The First Tobacco Product Display Ban in the United States
Author(s) -
Laurel Curry,
Carol Schmitt,
Harlan R. Juster
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2013.301861
Subject(s) - constitutionality , lawsuit , state (computer science) , tobacco control , tobacco product , point of sale , law , secondhand smoke , product (mathematics) , tobacco industry , political science , business , public administration , supreme court , public health , environmental health , medicine , geometry , nursing , mathematics , algorithm , world wide web , computer science
In April 2012, the village of Haverstraw, New York, passed the first tobacco retail display ban in the United States. Community groups funded by the New York State Department of Health Tobacco Control Program mobilized community members to support an initiative to protect youths in their area from tobacco marketing via methods consistent with a community transformation framework. The law was soon rescinded after 7 tobacco companies and the New York Association of Convenience Stores filed a federal lawsuit against the village that challenged the law's constitutionality. We discuss lessons learned and next steps for adoption of local point-of-sale policies.