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Its long been known the industry markets these products to young people, and given the current public health epidemic involving vaping and our youth, it is imperative that boards of health restrict sales of flavored products. Barnstable joins Ashland, Framingham, Needham, Somerville, Swampscott and Walpole among Bay State communities to restrict sales of all flavored tobacco and nicotine products, according to data from the Massachusetts Municipal Association
[31] Implementation and Enforcement Interviews with health department staff, researchers, legal professionals, and local government officials point towards some key best practices for adopting, implementing, and enforcing bans or restrictions on the sale of flavored tobacco products, including: using comprehensive policy language, including menthol identifying enforcement agents with sufficient capacity setting clear enforcement procedures, including for concept flavors implementing the policy through licensing with the potential for fines as well as license suspensions and revocations for violations examining potential economic and financial considerations deploying media campaigns to raise community awareness engaging community partners, including community members, priority populations, and youth engaging retailers as partners provide retailers with effective education, ideally through one-on-one outreach collecting baseline data to be able to demonstrate the impact of the policy, including disaggregated demographic data and data examining menthol separately from other flavors See more in Public Health Law Centers Flavored Tobacco Toolkit: Lessons Learned about Implementation of Flavored Policies, including: Flavored Tobacco Sales Prohibitions: Enforcement Options Evaluating Flavored Tobacco Sales Restrictions: A Literature Review Flavored Tobacco Sales Restrictions: An Interview with Cheryl Sbarra Case studies from San Francisco, CA
