Campaign Chronicles NEW!
Attached is a Special Edition of The Center for Tobacco Policy & Organizing's Campaign Chronicles. This edition is focused entirely on tobacco retailer licensing and organizing your community on this topic. Highlights include: information about how well local ordinances are working, tips for organizing in rural communities, and a field report illustrating the real life challenges of youth access to tobacco in a rural county. If you have any questions about this newsletter, direct your questions to Vanessa Marvin at (916) 442-4299 x12 or vmarvin@alac.org.

Goal Setting Exercise
Use this exercise when your campaign direction is not clear or when the core group needs to build consensus around a critical decision like selecting an issue.

Choosing an Issue Checklist
It may be helpful to use this checklist to evaluate all of the issues under consideration. A good issue will receive a check next to most of the criteria in the list.

Benefits & Barriers: Enacting Policies | Increasing Enforcement
These documents provide a summary of the benefits and barriers for enacting policies and increasing enforcement.

Model Licensing Ordinance: word | pdf - Updated!
TALC has provided this model licensing ordinance that covers issues including: registration of tobacco retailers and mobile tobacco sales

Model Licensing Ordinance Summary - New!

Model SSD Ordinance
TALC has provided this model Self Service Display (SSD) ordinance that covers issues including: lowering the percentage of window space covered by ads and banning sidewalk and other types of signs.

Strengthen Local Sign Laws Memo
This memo is intended to educate the public about how a typical local sign law is constructed and to provide advice about how best to strengthen the sign law to promote public health.

Sample Sign Law Amendments
View a summary of the possible sign law amendments, including limiting maximum window coverage of ads, and banning sidewalk and “pole” signs.

Model Land Use Ordinance
TALC has provided this model land use ordinance that covers issues including: areas frequented by children, number of tobacco retailers within an area, and proximity of tobacco retailers.

Authority to Regulate Retailers Memo
This memo addresses how public health can be improved when local governments exercise their constitutional, statutory, and charter authority to regulate the uses of land within their jurisdictions to control tobacco retailing.

Sample Letter to Congress - word
Tobacco control advocates may wish to work to change federal law so that communities are given the authority to regulate tobacco advertising on the local level. This document provides sample language to urge a member of congress to support amending the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act (FCLAA) to allow for local regulation of tobacco advertising.

Tips on Working with Law Enforcement
It is important to keep law enforcement informed of the local youth access and tobacco advertising problems in your community through education and outreach efforts. Use these tips to help you work with law enforcement.

Strategy Chart, see Develop a Strategy - word
The overall design for your campaign strategy incorporates goals, organizational considerations, constituents, allies and opponents, targets and tactics. Use this chart as a map to planning your campaign. See Develop a Strategy section for further description on how to use this tool.