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Tobacco Policy Options for Prevention (TPOP) is a community-based intervention aimed at changing community tobacco
policies and practices and evaluating their effects on youths' access to tobacco and tobacco use. The intervention
employs a direct action organizing model, relying on mobilization of large numbers of people to alter decision making
to resolve the public health problem of teen access to tobacco and tobacco use. TPOP is a four-phase, 32-month,
community intervention designed to bring about community mobilization toward a positive effect on adolescent tobacco
use through reductions in commercial availability of tobacco products. The four phases of the TPOP intervention are:
information gathering and team recruitment, community awareness building and ordinance development, preparation for
city council, and ordinance establishment and enforcement. Along with community mobilization, tobacco purchase
attempts were made by underage adolescents to test the ease of tobacco purchases and enforcement of age-of-sale
rules.
The four-phase program lasts approximately 32 months. In the original trial, the first phase, information gathering
and team building, took place over six months. The second phase, community awareness building and ordinance
development, lasted approximately twelve months. Preparing for city council hearing--the third phase--took two to
six months. The fourth phase, ordinance establishment and enforcement, took place during the time remaining for the
intervention, or approximately eight months.
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