Retail Issues

The Nexus Between Tobacco Manufacturers and Tobacco Retailers

The point-of-purchase is critical to tobacco sales. It is where the four Ps of a marketing plan—product, price, promotion, and place—unite and where, if successful, a shopper is converted into a buyer. Beginning in the early 1990s, as they faced growing restrictions on advertising and promotion, tobacco companies increasingly focused their attention and marketing...

A Comprehensive Pricing Strategy For Tobacco Products

A significant body of research evidence from around the world shows that the most effective intervention to reduce tobacco use is to increase tobacco prices through tobacco tax increases. On average, a 10% increase in price leads to a 4% drop in total consumption, with half the decrease due to continuing smokers smoking fewer...

Ontario Municipalities with Tobacco Retailer Licensing

Why a municipal tobacco retailer licence? This is a valid question, as Ontario does currently require all tobacco retailers to hold a provincial vendor permit. The government has also taken steps to reduce the prevalence of contraband tobacco in Ontario—recent amendments to the Tobacco Tax Act include a requirement that tobacco retailers currently holding...

Best Practices in Tobacco Retailer Licensing

Tobacco products are the most addictive and deadly consumer products on the market, and yet they are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in most communities in Canada. They are sold in essentially every corner store, gas station and grocery store, as well as a wide range of other venues. Download the...

Retail Display Bans 2.0

Between 2002 and 2010, all Canadian provinces and territories implemented bans on the display of tobacco products at point-of-sale. Retail display bans are a valuable component of a ban on tobacco advertising and promotion. Download the Document

Prohibiting Tobacco Sales in Specified Outlets: Policy Analysis

The goal of tobacco control in its broadest sense is to reduce disability and death from tobacco- caused diseases by reducing tobacco consumption. A comprehensive strategy that includes a mix of both demand reduction and supply reduction measures is widely regarded as the optimum approach to reaching this goal, with the emphasis on interventions...

Reforming the Retail Landscape for Tobacco: Why We Need to Do it & What Can be Done

Many in the Canadian and global tobacco control communities believe the time has come for a significant restructuring of the retail environment for tobacco products. Incremental measures to control the way in which tobacco products are marketed and sold at retail have been implemented for decades, beginning with bans on the sale of tobacco...

Reducing the Availability of Tobacco Products and Retail: Policy Analysis

Many in the Canadian and global tobacco control communities believe the time has come for a significant restructuring of the retail environment for tobacco products. Step-wise measures to control the way in which tobacco products are marketed and sold at retail have been implemented for decades, beginning with prohibitions on the sale of tobacco...

Why tobacco powerwalls and other forms of retail promotion must be banned

If we are serious about reducing tobacco use in Canada, all forms of tobacco product promotion at the point of sale, including power walls, must be banned. Click here to read a brochure on the subject. Download the Document

The influence of tobacco powerwall advertising on children

The complete report is found here: The Influence of Tobacco Powerwall Advertising on Children This video, although available for download here on-line, is best viewed in CD or videotape format, which we’d be glad to ship to you, if you contact our Toronto office: (416) 928-2900, [email protected] and make a request. Please include your name, contact...