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Comprehensive statewide Tobacco Retail License covering all tobacco products
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.
West Virginia spends $445,000 in tobacco prevention efforts and the tobacco industry spends $99.4M in marketing. For every $1 spent in prevention, Big Tobacco spends $223 in marketing.
Higher tobacco taxes are associated with decreases in tobacco use and increases in cessation and lower youth initiation.
Information updated Nov 2020. Please contact tom.geist@tobacco21.org if you have suggested updates.
