Tobacco Retailers on Tobacco Retailer Training Programs
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A Smoke Free Paso del Norte is an initiative funded by the Paso del Norte Health Foundation established in 1999 with a goal to eliminate smoking in the three state, two country region. Since 2006 The University of Texas at El Paso has served as the backbone organization for the smoke-free initiative.  Please dont take our flavors away!  6 people n my family habe quit smoking by vaping.  We all breathe better, no respiratory infections, bronchitis or COPD n the past 3 years. Doctors r happy we r n better health because of VAPING.  Please keep legitimate vape shops open so we live longer and enjoy our lives without having lung/breathing issues. I agree with beginning with this guidance for tobacco retailers on tobacco training programs. It is a small step in improving public health and the guidance for tobacco retailers is a great start. Monitoring and educating children, and adults alike, that choose to vape, smoke, or chew tobacco make them high risks of developing minor and major health deficits in latter years. Educating employees to educate the consumer on e-cigs, nicotine use, and health could positively impact the over-all health of people who smoke, dont smoke, and want to quit. The FDA currently features Lung Illness Associated with the Use of Vaping Products. Because vaping has become a popular fad with children and young adults, targeting the working population of the industry could benefit the consumer to make an educated judgement on purchasing these products.Thank you for your time. In the second paragraph of the background portion of this article, when it states: (3) written company policies against sales to minors and other restrictions on the access to, and the advertising and promotion of, tobacco products;, I believe that this said training that is going to be taking place is something that could be very good for minors who are getting addicted to tobacco. Due to the fact that there have been multiple companies targeting minors with the use of fruity flavors in their tobacco products, I strongly believe that we should use any means necessary to train/guide tobacco retailers in the way of putting them through training and giving the employees a written test before they are allowed to sell tobacco products. We support FDAs goal of addressing education among tobacco retailers about compliance and enforcement of The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act). We recommend that: 1) As planned, encourage all tobacco retailers have a basic program that meets FDA proposed educational standards. Currently no requirement exists for retailers to implement education among their employees about compliance or enforcement of the Tobacco Control Act. An incentive to do so exists only if retailers have a documented violation of the Tobacco Control Act and want to avoid resulting fines.  2) FDA could consider additional methods to provide an in-person educational training to tobacco retailers that receive citations for violating provisions of the Tobacco Control Act. We believe that if the FDA developed and implemented an in-person retailer education training program for those that have received citations, it may increase retailer compliance with provisions of the Tobacco Control Act. This is particularly true for retailers who may not allocate sufficient resources to their own retailer educational programs. Also, rather than relying on retailers to learn about the details of the Tobacco Control Act themselves, FDA may be ideally positioned to provide education to retailers. This is particularly true for lesser-known provisions of the Tobacco Control Act. For instance, while most retailers may be aware of the minimum age of sale, other provisions of the Tobacco Control Act (e.g., existence of self-service displays and vending machines) may be less obvious and therefore less likely to have compliance at the retail level. Evidence of this is found in publicly available warning letters, where the majority of warning letters from advertising and labeling inspections are for self-service displays [1]. In-person education to tobacco retailers that receive citations could help retailers better understand the role that the FDA plays regulating the marketing, advertising and sale of tobacco products, the rules of the Tobacco Control Act, and repercussions of violating the rules. FDA could consider ways of leveraging the already-existing FDA retailer inspections program, which sends adult FDA inspectors into tobacco retailers, for such in-person retailer training.3) FDA could consider convening an in-person meeting of state and national experts and stakeholders on educational programs that may increase tobacco retailer compliance with the Tobacco Control Act. Evidence from a 2000 systematic review by Stead and colleagues [2] shows that retailer education alone may not be sufficient to maximize retailer compliance with federal tobacco sale regulations. Interventions which only supplied retailer education (often via a mailed informational packet) did not produce statistically significant decreases in sales of tobacco products to minors [3-5]. However, more intensive interventions that included in-person visits to retailers, community education and engagement, and media coverage had greater effects in terms of compliance with tobacco sale laws [6, 7]. An in-person meeting on educational programs to increase retailer compliance with the Tobacco Control Act may provide the opportunity for state and national experts and stakeholders to discuss innovative ways to complement retailer education with more intensive interventions and engagement. We believe these efforts to increase education of retailers could allow greater compliance with the Tobacco Control Act  and one of its goals of improving rates of compliance with tobacco regulations among retailers. Hannah M. Baker, MPHAntonio Powers, BSBALeah M. Ranney, PhDAdam O. Goldstein, MD, MPHDepartment of Family MedicineUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillReferences1. US Food and Drug Administration. Compliance Check Inspections of Tobacco Product Retailers. 2016 [cited 2016 April 13]; Available from: www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oce/inspections/oce_insp_searching.cfm.2. Stead, L.F. and T. Lancaster, A systematic review of interventions for preventing tobacco sales to minors. Tobacco Control, 2000. 9(2): p. 169-176.3. Skretny, M., et al., An intervention to reduce the sale of cigarettes to minors. New York State Journal of Medicine, 1990. 90(2): p. 54-55.4. Gemson, D.H., et al., Laying down the law: reducing illegal tobacco sales to minors in central Harlem. American Journal of Public Health, 1998. 88(6): p. 936-939.5. Schofield, M.J., R.W. Sanson-Fisher, and S. Gulliver, Interventions with retailers to reduce cigarette sales to minors: a randomised controlled trial. Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, 1997. 21(6): p. 590-596.6. Keay, D., et al., Effect of a retailer intervention on cigarette sales to minors in San Diego County, California. Tobacco Control, 1993. 2(2): p. 145.7. Biglan, A., et al., Mobilising positive reinforcement to reduce youth access to tobacco. Tobacco Control, 1995. 4(1): p. 42. there is no reason in the world that retailers need a training program. this divisoin can simply send out a notificatoin to the retailers on what is relevant and advise them if they want to check on anyting to go to the internet site and that is enough. there is no reason at all to spendmoney in retailer trainnig other than that.no retailer needs these fat cat bureaucrats to come in and lecture about somethign they may forget five minutes after hearing it. put the information on line and in a written document to each of them and that is it. that is all the taxpayers of this country believe this agency shoudl do. this agency is about employees who want jobs to last for eternity. these employees at this aencyu dont want to do anythint to fimply life. they want to set up  huge bureaucracy so they always  have jobs. there is no area in the country that needs downsizng more than this self perpetuating fat cat buraecuracy. this commetn is for the public record. Under the  Tobacco Control Act the regulation contains provisions to limit young peoples access to cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products, as well as restrictions on advertising and promotion of such products, to minors.Youth tobacco use in New York State is still a big problem.*Each year, 10,600 kids under 18 become new daily smokers in New York.  Thats 29 kids who will become smokerstoday..*The Surgeon General of the United States calls tobacco use a pediatric epidemic, with 3.6 million youth currently smoking cigarettes.  *Youth exposure to tobacco marketing in New York State remains high.*The New York Youth Tobacco Survey indicate 85% of high school students were aware of tobacco-related ads in convenience stores, supermarkets, gas stations or pharmacies in 2014. *Awareness of pro-tobacco marketing via the internet was reported by 79% of high school students in 2014.*Over 92% of high school students were exposed to tobacco marketing in 2014, via the internet or in a retail environment. Tobacco industry marketing causes youth smoking, according to the U.S. Surgeon General.2012*Nearly 9 out of 10 cigarette smokers first tried smoking by the age of 18. *The tobacco industry spends $235 million a year marketing to New York youth$9.6 billion nationwideNew York needs to protect our youth from the direct and manipulative  marketing tactics of Big Tobacco companies Underage tobacco usage is an epidemic that is having a profound effect on Americas youth. High rates of tobacco usage have resulted in more tobacco related diseases, which are responsible for over 440,000 deaths a year in the United States (The Columbia Daily Tribune). With over 12,000 warnings being issued to tobacco retailers in several states, it is apparent that retailers of tobacco products need to do a better job of educating their employees on the effects of tobacco products; as well as the penalties for violating the policies in regards to selling products to minors. While programs such as the we card initiative have helped reduce the number of tobacco sales to the youth, more needs to be done. Tobacco companies/retailers spend millions in legal fees concerning tort law, where many of them are found to be liable for the ill effects that using tobacco products have on the human body. In the case of Lukacs v. Phillip Morris, Inc, it was ruled that Phillip Morris Inc., was responsible for the plaintiff losing his tongue to a disease that was directly caused by using tobacco products; thus resulting in a 37.5 million dollar settlement (Public Health Advocacy Institute). While using tobacco products is a choice that is left up to the individual, tobacco companies must bare some of the burden associated with the health risk involved with using such products. With that said, tobacco usage is something that will not go away and as a society we must continue to educate our youth, adults and retailers on the negative effects of using tobacco products. It is because of this that I am in support of the Food and Drug Administration docket No. FDA-2010-D-0350, Draft Guidance for Tobacco Retailers on Tobacco Retailer Trainer Programs.References:http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2011/nov/10/fda-eyes-tobacco-retailers/http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/litigation/resources/victories.htm Docket ID FDA 2010-D-0350