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Three out of four voters who live in California’s rural communities and small towns would support local laws requiring store owners to get a license to sell cigarettes, according to a public opinion survey conducted for the American Lung Association of California’s Center for Tobacco Policy & Organizing.
Sixty-six percent said a fee of $200 a year for the license is either “too low” or “about right” and 91 percent agree that a store owner who repeatedly sells cigarettes to minors should no longer have the right to sell cigarettes.This strong support for a licensing ordinance challenges the notion that rural residents would be less receptive to government regulation of store owners to prevent tobacco sales to minors.
For the complete survey results, go to www.Center4TobaccoPolicy.org/polling-rural
