Share Ideas, Comments and Recommendations for the FDA Retailer Education Campaign.
The FDA Center for Tobacco Products plans to refresh the retailer education campaign, Break the Chain of Tobacco Addiction (Break the Chain). Share ideas, comments, and vote on how Break the Chain can become a more effective retailer education outreach campaign.
We want to hear from you about any or all of the following:
- What materials, messaging, strategies, and communication tools are most effective in educating tobacco retailers in your state?
- Your ideas for additional Break the Chain retailer education materials and communication tools.
- How FDA can work collaboratively with your organization to educate and communicate with tobacco retailers.
Visit www.fda.gov/BreaktheChain to learn more about existing Break the Chain retailer education materials and communication tools.
We value your feedback and appreciate your time! Future forums are in the works to get your ideas on tobacco retailer education and communication strategies.
This forum will be open from August 13 to September 13, 2012.
If you have questions about the FDA Center for Tobacco Products, please email AskCTP@fda.hhs.gov.
Please note that FDA will only post on-topic ideas and comments about retailer education materials and communication tools and those that conform to our comment policy. Additionally, the UserVoice service FDA employs to provide this forum is not a government entity. To review our Comment Policy and our Notice of Third-Party Website Use, please visit http://go.usa.gov/3jT.
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More information designed for at-register retailer education
As our health departments conduct ongoing retailer education as part of their statewide plans questions are coming up about FDA requirements. Having information that is quick, to-the-point, and designed for this type of venue is especially important in our state (which is comprised of large rural and frontier areas). Sometimes the best (or only) opportunity we have to work with retailers to prevent underage access is on-site and literally at the register.
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breaking web information (other than webinars) into smaller, digesitble portions- sometimes amount of information is overwhelming
Instead of whole act listed for person to wade through a piece on the underage sales, a piece on the advertising and labeling, a piece on the penalties in very brief formats to start with then links to full bodied information- e.g.- could use recent mailer for Break the chain with spinoff links to each of the items listed to give reader immediate access to each of the specific areas
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Palm cards for A&L checks that briefly on one side of card explain basics and web and phone contact information on the other side
These would be available to inspectors to hand out to retailers during A&L inspections. Addresses awkwardness of inspector being on premises but not able to even give basics to store personnel.
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Post actual states with age 19 laws in all pieces that share Federal requirement is 18
We have had previous experience where not having the actual states with 19 for age of use attached to the Federal requirement of 18 being confusing to retailers. Listing an asterisk and suggesting that there may be stricter requirements in some states is inadequate-doesn't appear average reader really pays attention to those.
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consider putting basic retailer education on a dvd
We have learned some chains do not allow employees access to the web but will allow employees to watch a training dvd.
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