Table 2.
Frequency of Other Age-of-Sale Signs displayed in the interior of stores that were not compliant with the STAKE Act Signage (18+ sign before 9 June 2016; 21+ sign on or after 9 June 2016)
| Community | We Card N (%) |
Other Philip Morris N (%) |
Natural America Spirit N (%) |
Handmade sign N (%) |
Other CA sign N (%) | Other N (%) |
No sign N (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA (N=138) | 34 (24.6) | 10 (7.3) | 6 (4.4) | 15 (10.9) | 27 (19.6) | 20 (14.5) | 28 (20.3) |
| KA (N=40) | 11 (27.5) | 8 (20.0) | 2 (5.0) | 4 (10.0) | 7 (17.5) | 4 (10.0) | 14 (35.0) |
| HL (N=78) | 20 (25.6) | 12 (15.4) | 1 (1.3) | 4 (5.1) | 12 (15.4) | 7 (9.0) | 28 (35.9) |
| NHW (N=113) | 44 (38.9) | 22 (19.5) | 10 (8.9) | 16 (14.2) | 12 (10.6) | 12 (10.6) | 22 (19.5) |
| Total (N=369) | 109 (29.5) | 52 (14.1) | 19 (5.2) | 39 (10.6) | 58 (15.7) | 43 (11.7) | 92 (24.9) |
We Card: sign developed by the National Coalition for Responsible Tobacco Retailing and Philip Morris. Other Philip Morris: ‘Buying tobacco for minors could cost you. It’s not just wrong. It’s illegal’. Natural American Spirit: ‘You must have been born on or before today’s date [1995]’. Homemade sign: Any sign that the retailers created on their own. Other CA sign: California ID verification tip sheet or California We Check ID Window Cling. Other: Anything else that did not fit into any of the above categories (e.g. ‘The sale of tobacco products is prohibited to persons under 21’, ‘We-Check ID Under 30’).