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Public Health Policy Change Series: Policy Options for Restricting Tobacco Sampling and Couponing
Webinar
February 7, 2012
12:00 - 1:00 PM
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- Presenters: Betsy Brock, MPH, Director of Research, Association for Nonsmokers-Minnesota; Ian McLaughlin, JD, Senior Staff Attorney, Public Health Law & Policy; Kerry Malloy Snyder, JD, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Public Health & Tobacco Policy
- Moderator: Maggie Mahoney, Deputy Director, Tobacco Control Legal Consortium
This webinar will discuss the impact that marketing strategies, such as sampling and couponing, have on the price of tobacco products, and the effects that price reductions have on consumption rates. It will explain the importance of policies prohibiting tobacco sampling and limiting the distribution and redemption of tobacco coupons, and it will outline various policy options that state and local governments might consider to limit these industry practices.
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