San Francisco Voters End the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products
Authors: Y. Tony Yang, Stanton Glantz
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (2019)

Letters18 June 2019San Francisco Voters End the Sale of Flavored Tobacco ProductsY. Tony Yang, ScD, LLM, MPH and Stanton Glantz, PhDY. Tony Yang, ScD, LLM, MPHGeorge Washington University, Washington, DC (Y.T.Y.)Search for more papers by this author and Stanton Glantz, PhDUniversity of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California (S.G.)Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/L19-0154 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail IN RESPONSE:We agree with Dr. Braillon that San Francisco's comprehensive ban on the sale of all flavored tobacco products is an important trendsetter for the United States and beyond. The San Francisco experience shows the importance of local action in the fight against the tobacco industry. In the United States, localities often have substantial jurisdiction over public health. Local action has thus been the key to implementing innovative tobacco control measures, beginning with smoking restrictions in the 1980s (1). Local policymaking has proved to be a venue in which health forces can muster the resources needed to fight the ...References1. Glantz SA, Balbach EB. Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles. Berkeley: Univ California Pr; 2000. Google Scholar2. Ulucanlar S, Fooks GJ, Gilmore AB. The policy dystopia model: an interpretive analysis of tobacco industry political activity. PLoS Med. 2016;13:e1002125. [PMID: 27649386] doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002125 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. World Health Organization. World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. 2019. Accessed at www.who.int/fctc/en on 18 February 2019. Google Scholar4. The Council of the European Union. Directive 2014/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco and related products and repealing Directive 2001/37/EC, 2014. 2014. Accessed at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32014L0040 on 18 February 2019. Google Scholar5. Santé publique France. Tabagisme en France: 1 million de fumeurs quotidiens en moins. 28 May 2018. Accessed at www.santepubliquefrance.fr/Actualites/Tabagisme-en-France-1-million-de-fumeurs-quotidiens-en-moins on 18 February 2019. Google Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: George Washington University, Washington, DC (Y.T.Y.)University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California (S.G.)Disclosures: Authors have disclosed no conflicts of interest. Forms can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M18-2317. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoSan Francisco Voters End the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products Despite Strong Industry Opposition Y. Tony Yang and Stanton Glantz San Francisco Voters End the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products Alain Braillon Metrics Cited byNicotine Addiction and Intensity of e-Cigarette Use by Adolescents in the US, 2014 to 2021 18 June 2019Volume 170, Issue 12Page: 907-908KeywordsConflicts of interestDisclosureFood and Drug AdministrationGlobal healthLegislationPrevention, policy, and public healthSmoking preventionTaxesTobacco control ePublished: 18 June 2019 Issue Published: 18 June 2019 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2019 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...