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Counter Tools, with the help of its Partners, advances place-based public health by enacting and enforcing policy, systems, and environmental interventions that promote health equity across communities.

Comments on Premium Cigars ANPRM

Excerpt: In this ANPRM, FDA established important parameters limiting its inquiry regarding the regulation of premium cigars. By its plain terms, this ANPRM is not for the purpose of reconsidering the agency’s judgment that, based on the information available and in the administrative record at the [More]

By |2020-03-23T16:14:04-04:00July 25, 2018|Categories: Advocacy|

Comments on Flavored Tobacco Products ANPRM

Excerpt: When Congress enacted the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act or TCA), it prohibited the use of characterizing flavors, other than menthol, in cigarettes because Congress concluded that flavors in cigarettes made the products appealing to adolescents. The TCA also directed [More]

By |2020-03-23T16:14:19-04:00July 19, 2018|Categories: Advocacy|

Comments on Illicit Trade Draft Concept Paper

Excerpt: The Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has published and sought comments on a draft paper entitled Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products after Implementation of an FDA Product Standard. The document addresses the potential for development of an illicit market as a result of a number [More]

By |2020-03-23T16:14:50-04:00July 16, 2018|Categories: Advocacy|

Comments on Nicotine Standard ANPRM

Excerpt: For decades, researchers have agreed that nicotine is the fundamental addictive agent in tobacco, leading the U.S. Surgeon General to affirmatively conclude in the 1988 report, The Health Consequences of Smoking: Nicotine Addiction, that, “nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction.” Now, strong [More]

By |2020-03-23T16:15:00-04:00July 16, 2018|Categories: Advocacy|

Counter Tobacco Podcast Bonus Episode: Interview with Dr. Phillip Gardiner

For this bonus episode of the podcast, following up on our episode on African-American Tobacco Use and Industry Targeting,” two Counter Tools staff members, Jackie Boards and Rose DeLeon-Foote, had the opportunity to interview Dr. Phillip Gardiner, Co-Chair of the African-American Tobacco Control Leadership Council, while [More]

By |2020-07-06T15:59:22-04:00May 25, 2018|Categories: Counter Tobacco Podcast|

Charla Rios featured in Carolina Public Health!

Our very own Charla Rios (Hodges), Sr. Project Director and Food Retail Environment Coordinator, was featured in Carolina Public Health's Spring 2018 issue! The magazine interviewed young alumni from all eight academic units at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health for their Trajectories article.

By |2019-03-21T14:41:49-04:00May 25, 2018|Categories: Health Equity|

Milwaukee, WI partners moving towards healthier tobacco retail

We are pleased to see coverage from the Shepherd Express about retail tobacco prevention and control efforts in Milwaukee. Our Counter Tools team is proud to partner with local advocates such as the City of Milwaukee Tobacco-Free Alliance, Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network, Wisconsin Tobacco [More]

By |2020-04-20T16:14:07-04:00August 14, 2017|Categories: Partners|

Duke Data+ Partnership with Counter Tools

Led by Counter Tools' longtime collaborator, Mike Dolan Fliss, a team of talented Duke students spent the summer testing the feasibility of emerging methods to capture the locations and types of tobacco retail outlets. Special thanks to Felicia Chen, Nikhil Pulimood, and James Wang for your [More]

By |2020-05-20T14:14:29-04:00August 14, 2017|Categories: Data|
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