• No customers below the community's minimum nicotine product purchase age
• Door signs declare nicotine sales location and prohibit underage admission
• No exterior (including window) nicotine product marketing signs
• No images allowed in interior product marketing signs other than product or logo
• Prominent interior warning that smoking or chewing nicotine is highly addictive

Youth access but no openly visible marketing

• No exterior (including window) nicotine product marketing signs
• Only one interior nicotine product marketing sign (i.e. Nicotine Products Sold Here)
• All nicotine products hidden from view behind sales counter
• Prominent interior warning that smoking or chewing nicotine is highly addictive

Marketing & products limited to behind sales counter

• No exterior (including window) nicotine product marketing signs
• Interior nicotine product marketing allowed behind the sales counter but limited to product displays, product name and price. No images or product assertions.
• No nicotine product within reach of youth
• Prominent interior warning that smoking or chewing nicotine is highly addictive

Marketing but not near candy, chips, snacks or sodas

• No exterior (including window) nicotine product marketing signs
• Interior signs but not in the vicinity of candy, chips, pastries, snacks or 3. No signs at a height of less than 36 inches
• No nicotine product within reach of youth

Exterior and interior signs clearly targeting youth

• Exterior or exterior window signs or signs below 36 inches in height, or
• Interior signs above, below or in the vicinity of candy, chips, snacks or sodas, or
• Nicotine products within reach of youth

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• WhyQuit's Why Quit on Youth youth and young adult nicotine dependency prevention directory
  
  
• Marlboro Maybe Archetype Ad Campaign - Philip Morris International targeting youth for addiction to smoked nicotine.
  
  
• Convenience Stores: Nicotine Addiction Central
  
  
• Retail Nicotine Sales Grading Scale
  
  
• 100 Reasons Why CVS Should Stop Selling Cigarettes
  
  
• 2004 Tracy, California study discovers more intense marketing in stores frequented by youth (study summary only)
  
  
• 2003 U.S. study examines how tobacco companies gain prime placement of in-store advertising (free full text in html format)
  
  
• 2002 Massachusetts study examines how neighborhood income and ethnic composition impact point of sale marketing (free full text in html format)
  
  
• 2001 Britich Medical Journal study in England that examines youth awareness of point-of-sale marketing and finds a 95% awarness rate (free full text in html format)
  
  
• 2001 University of N.C. busniess professor examines the "role of slotting fees and trade promotions in shaping how tobacco is marketed in retail stores" (free full text in html format)
  
  
• 2002 U.S. study monitored point-of-sale maketing increase following 1999 tobacco billboard ban (free full text in pdf format)
  
  

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