| Retail Tobacco Advertising Influences Youth | |
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The tobacco industry is driven to find new customers. Too many of their adult customers die or succeed in quitting! The tobacco industry exploits evey loophole to market to youth, while loudly denying that they do so. The retail store is the venue where tobacco advertising and our kids connect on a regular basis. |
Read our Fact Sheet: |
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The Four Corners Partnership is working to educate the public and tobacco retailers about the impact that tobacco advertising in retail stores has on the youth in our communities.
Learn more:
Tobacco Marketing, Advertising and Promotions at the Point of Sale
Why are youth more heavily influenced by in-store advertising? This is a brief summary of the issues and research with a bibliography of sources.
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Hear a Minnesota convenience store owner explain how the tobacco companies make her “jump through the hoops”. A short You Tube clip from “Tobacco’s Hidden Influence On Our Kids”, a video produced by the Minnesota Department of Health in 2007. |
State-Specific Tobacco Company Marketing Expenditures 1998 to 2008
How much do the tobacco companies spend on advertising in Minnesota? The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids has put the data from the Federal Trade Commission into an easy to read table.
FDA Consumer Fact Sheet - Protecting Children
Explains the link between tobacco product advertisements and promotions and adolescent tobacco use. Summarizes action the FDA is taking to protect children.






