Empowering Communities: The Impact of Tobacco Retail Licensing

Discover how Tobacco Retail Licensing serves as a crucial tool for communities, ensuring adherence to tobacco laws and reducing tobacco usage. This bilingual factsheet highlights its role in regulating retailer locations, particularly near youth-centric areas, and its effectiveness in controlling tobacco advertising, offering a healthier environment for all, especially in minority and low-income neighborhoods.

Cessation Resources

  • Kick it CA

    Kick it CA is a free program that helps Californians kick smoking, vaping, and smokeless tobacco usage with the help of proven, science-based strategies.

  • Truth Initiative

    Truth Initiative is America's largest nonprofit public health organization committed to making tobacco use and nicotine addiction a thing of the past.

  • CDC

    The Centers for Disease Control has multiple phone numbers/text numbers in different languages that will help people quit smoking.

Other Resources

  • The Tulare County Tobacco Prevention Program

    Works to reduce tobacco use and protect from secondhand and thirdhand smoke in Tulare County.

  • CTHAT

    Maps tobacco retailers near youth-sensitive areas like schools and parks in California.

  • The Fresno County Tobacco-Free Coalition

    A network dedicated to reducing tobacco use and exposure to secondhand and thirdhand smoke.

  • Valley Action

    Empowers rural communities in Central Valley for healthy individuals and families.

  • Fight Cancer

    A non-profit fighting the tobacco industry and creating resources nationwide.

  • Latino Coordinating Center for a Tobacco-Free California

    Aims to improve Latino health in California by reducing tobacco-related disparities.

  • The Source LGBT+ Center

    Offers 20+ programs supporting the LGBTQ+ community, including Mental Health and HIV Services.