Learning Objectives: Apply knowledge gained to increase ordinance data collection for program planning and research purposes and utilize the database to conduct original research on the impact of local ordinances on tobacco exposure, consumption, sales to minors, etc.
Abstract: Policy Advocacy at the local level is vitally important to public health practitioners. The field of tobacco control is unique in that it has access to a national database of local tobacco control ordinances. ANR Foundation's Local Tobacco Control Ordinance Database was originally developed in the 1980s as a tool to assist advocates working in the tobacco control field. As the database grew and became more comprehensive it attracted the interest of researchers studying a wide variety of tobacco control policy issues. Fields were added to the database to track more specific information in response to the demand for increasingly detailed data.
Now covering almost 2100 communities, the data represents one of the most thorough collections of local policy data and presents a unique opportunity for research and program planning. It has been used by researchers and advocates across the country for a variety of purposes, including studying the economic impact of smokefree ordinances on restaurants, demonstrating the popularity and value of local tobacco control legislation to state legislators, analyzing the relationship between youth access ordinances and youth smoking rates, and many others which will be detailed in the presentation.
The presentation will include case studies of several communities who used the data, and examples of specific research done using the data.
Information will be provided to participants on how to access the data.
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