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Tobacco Free Brevard urges zoning, retailer limits to curb youth vaping
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Tobacco Free Brevard presented county data showing concentrated retail marketing near schools and parks and proposed zoning and retailer-density limits to reduce youth exposure to tobacco and vaping products.
Elizabeth Bublitz, tobacco policy manager for Tobacco Free Brevard, told the Brevard TIP on Monday that the partnership’s countywide data show retail marketing as a major driver of tobacco and vaping among young people and that zoning is a practical tool to reduce exposure. "Point of sale is actually where you are shopping and where a lot of the tobacco products are marketed towards our youth," Bublitz said.
Bublitz said the group has documented 1,073 locations in Brevard County that sell tobacco products and about 484 retailers located within…
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