Table 3.

Implementation Challenges and Responses from Advocates and Cities

Challenges/unintended consequences	Advocate and city responses
“Store splitting”—dividing a convenience store with a wall, adding a separate exterior entrance, and opening as a tobacco products shop	A moratorium on new tobacco products shop licenses to allow time to study density and location of shops that can sell menthol products
Changing license from a convenience or grocery store to a tobacco product shop	Density studies of current outlets to determine how many council wards have shops, and demographic and income information on location of shops
Store within a store—building a separate structure within a store and calling it a tobacco product shop	Set limits on spacing, requiring at least 2000 feet between tobacco product shops
Posting signs in stores informing customers that menthol can no longer be sold—and advising them to contact their council member	Set cap on the total number of licenses allowed in city
	Clarify ordinance intent with all governing bodies that can approve license changes
	Collaboration with city compliance staff (licensing, zoning, law enforcement, etc.) and assist with retailer education, monitoring, and enforcement
Unsold products on hand—merchants still had menthol products on hand when the ordinance went into effect

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