Resources:

• Webinar Slides
• The Tobacco Industry & the Black Community: The Targeting of African Americans
• Menthol Ban: Highlighting the Facts and Rebutting Tobacco Industry Misinformation
• Evaluating Flavored Tobacco Sales Restrictions: A Literature Review
• PHLC FDA Menthol Timeline
• Supplement to Citizen Petition: Prohibit Menthol as a Characterizing Flavoring of Cigarettes and Cigarette Smoke
• Keeping Hookah Tobacco in Flavored Sales Restrictions: Why it's Important for Health Equity
• Decriminalizing Commercial Tobacco: Addressing Systemic Racism in the Enforcement of Commercial Tobacco Control
• Hidden Agenda: Tobacco Industry Interference with State & Local Policy

Public Health Law Center staff will present a 60-minute webinar on key commercial tobacco control policies announced in Governor Kathy Hochul’s recent State of the State address. The bulk of the discussion will focus on the Governor’s proposed cigarette excise tax increase and the restriction on the sale of flavored tobacco products. The webinar will include a Q&A session and time for discussion with attendees.

Presenters:
Kevin Schroth, Rutgers School of Public Health
Mike Freiberg, Public Health Law Center
Kelly McAnnany, Public Health Law Center
Mark Meaney, Public Health Law Center

Moderator:
Zohal Khan, Public Health Law Center