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1.
Retail merchants must have a no cost permit from the
Alabama Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board no later than January 1, 1998, to legally sell
or
distribute tobacco or have a cigarette vending machine on the
store's
premises.
Penalty: A fine up to $1,500 may be issued for failure to
obtain a permit
2.
Retail merchants must not sell,
give, nor distribute tobacco products
to
any
minor.
Penalty: Administrative actions by
the ABC Board against the
permit
holder gradually increasing from educational training to a fine of up
to
$1,000 including loss of permit and the ability to sell any tobacco
products.
3. It is
unlawful for any minor to purchase, use, posses, or transport
tobacco
products. Any tobacco products found in the possession of a minor
is
contraband and subject to seizure by the law
enforcement.
Penalty: A citation similar to
a uniform non-traffic citation shall be
issued
with a fine up to $50 and the tobacco may be taken
away.
For a copy of Act 97-423 (Alabama Law 28-11), call the Alabama Legislative
Reference Service at (334)
242-7560 or EMAIL at mailto:LRS@ALAINC.NET
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What is
Tar Wars?
Tar Wars is a
pro-health tobacco education program and poster contest for fifth
graders. The ultimate goal of the program is to discourage tobacco
use among the nation’s youth. The key elements of the program are
education and community involvement.
How was
Tar Wars developed?
In 1988, members of Doctors Ought to Care and
the Hall of Life Health Education Center of the Denver Museum of
Natural History developed a program that would allow family
physicians and community organizations to become involved in youth
tobacco education. Together they launched the Tar Wars program to
discourage adolescent tobacco use. The program is designed to
educate students prior to the age when the decision to smoke or chew
tobacco is made.
Tar Wars
Vision
Tar Wars is a
dynamic education program that motivates youth to make positive
health choices based on personal responsibility.
Goal 1: To educate
and motivate youth in choosing a healthy way of
life.
Goal 2: To mobilize health care providers and educators to be
proactive in community health
education.
Goal 3: To encourage community involvement and support for the Tar
Wars
project.
Goal 4: To
evaluate the Tar Wars program and it
effectiveness.
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Mission
The Smoke-Free
Class of 2000's mission - which fits that of the American Lung
Association, American Cancer Society, and American Heart Association - is
to encourage a tobacco-free class of high school seniors nationwide by the
year 2000. The TATU program is coordinated by the American Lung
Association.
Goals
T.A.T.U.'s main goal is to help teens remain tobacco
free. But teens also gain experience and skills that will
help them in a wide range of adult activities.
Teens Against
Tobacco Use builds on the SFC 2000's popular educational materials for
grades 1-8. T.A.T.U. concentrates on the following five components
designed to prevent tobacco use.
1. Develop skills
to teach younger children about tobacco use and become advocates for a
tobacco-free community.
2. Understand and
identify the positive aspects of being tobacco free and realize that the
majority of teens and adults do NOT smoke.
3. Understand how
tobacco advertising and promotions deceive youth.
4. Understand how
getting hooked on tobacco destroys youth's freedom and control over
their personal lives.
5. Develop
self-confidence.
For More
Information About the TATU Program, you can:
call 1-800-LUNGUSA
or (205) 933-8821 or
email us at the
bottom of the page.
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Call the ABC Board at 1-800-327-7341
to
report if you see a clerk:
-sell tobacco
products to anyone who looks under the age of
19
-who does not check an ID of someone who
looks younger than 27 |
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