Report Card
Enforcement
Oklahoma’s statewide Tobacco Retail License only covers cigarettes and other tobacco products and does NOT include e-cigarettes. This makes it extremely difficult to ensure e-cigarette retailers are being compliant to MLSA laws. The license fee of $30 with renewal every three years is inadequate to fund effective enforcement. ID check is only required if an ordinary person would conclude on the basis of appearance to be under the age of 21 and not the recommend age of 30. The penalty structure is weak and conditional, which won’t help in making retailers accountable for underage sales.
Tobacco Retail License
- Comprehensive statewide Tobacco Retail License covering all tobacco products
- Multiple Tobacco Retail Licenses that cover all tobacco products
- Tobacco Retail License only covers cigarettes and NOT e-cigarettes
- No statewide Tobacco Retail License
Preemption
- No preemption
- Preempted from raising the sales age
- Preempted from creating a Tobacco Retail License
All public health is local. Often Big Tobacco works to add preemption to statewide tobacco control bills so cities and counties are unable to enact laws that better protect the public.
High School Vaping Rate
27.8%
Tobacco Prevention vs. Industry Marketing
$1 : $6
Oklahoma spends $23.9M in tobacco prevention efforts and the tobacco industry spends $137.7M in marketing. For every $1 spent in prevention, Big Tobacco spends $6 in marketing.