Tobacco Vendor
Compliance Report
2001
Madison Department of Public Health
Madison Department of Public Health (MDPH) re-established the Tobacco Vendor Compliance Check Program in 2001in order to decrease the availability of tobacco to minors. The Department has contracted with Centers for Prevention and Intervention (CPI) to perform one compliance check on each tobacco vendor in November and December of 2001. According to State statute, bars and taverns were included in these compliance checks.
According to data from the City Clerk
=s Office, there were 321 licensed tobacco vendors in the City as of November 2001. Nine of these licenses were not included in the compliance check program for one of several reasons (2 were not open to the public, 1 specialized in adult entertainment, and 6 were no longer in business).Key Points:
·
Compliance checks were not performed from July 1999 through November 2001 due to restrictions by State statutes.·
Tobacco vendor compliance decreased from 82% in 1998-99 to 69% in November and December of 2001·
Excluding taverns and bars, tobacco vendor compliance was 72%, which is the lowest compliance level since February 1996.·
Even when located within taverns and the bar areas of restaurants and bowling alleys, vending machines still only achieved a compliance level of 39%.·
Compliance rates decreased among all tobacco vendor types over the 2 years that tobacco vendor compliance checks were not performed in Madison.·
Taverns, which were not included in compliance checks in previous years, sold on 35.9% of attempts.Tobacco Vendor Information:
The following table lists the number of vendors checked during the last round of compliance checks and the number of active tobacco licenses as of November 2001.
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November-December 2001 |
Active Tobacco Licenses |
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Number of Vendors |
% |
Percent Total |
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Vendor Type |
Checked |
Sold |
Compliance |
Licenses |
Licenses |
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Convenience Store |
62 |
17 |
72.6% |
63* |
20.2 |
|
|
Drug Store |
13 |
2 |
84.6% |
13 |
4.2 |
|
|
Gas Station |
21 |
6 |
71.4% |
21 |
6.7 |
|
|
Grocery Store |
32 |
11 |
65.6% |
32 |
10.2 |
|
|
Hotel & Motel |
6 |
3 |
50.0% |
6 |
1.9 |
|
|
Liquor Store |
23 |
6 |
73.9% |
23 |
7.4 |
|
|
Other |
5 |
2 |
60.0% |
7* |
2.2 |
|
|
Retail |
24 |
6 |
75.0% |
24 |
7.7 |
|
|
Restaurants |
18 |
4 |
77.8% |
18 |
5.8 |
|
|
Taverns |
103 |
37 |
64.1% |
105* |
33.7 |
|
|
Total |
307 |
94 |
69.4% |
312 |
100.0 |
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* Some active licenses were temporarily closed for the season or for renovation.
Compliance Check Results:
Between July 1999 and November 2001, tobacco vendor compliance checks were not performed in Madison due to changes in state statute. For this reason, it was not surprising that compliance rates decreased in Nov/Dec 2001 to 69% (Fig. 1). The name, location, and record of vendors selling tobacco to a minor in this last round are provided in the appendix.
In 1998 and 1999, vending machines were not accessible to youths performing
compliance checks because Madison’s TVCP program did not send compliance
checkers into areas restricted to minors. With the change in state statute, our
program is now required to send minors into bars and taverns. As with compliance
checks in 1995 through 1997, compliance checks during this last round found
vending machines to have the lowest compliance rates of all types of tobacco
sales (Figure 2). As expected, all forms of tobacco sales experienced a decrease
in compliance from previous years.
Figure 3 (attached) shows the percent compliance broken down by vendor type for the last four rounds. Most vendor types experienced a decrease in compliance in the last round of checks with drops of 20 percentage points or more occurring at retail stores, liquor stores, and grocery stores. The large drops in compliance at restaurants are a result of the small number of these establishments checked in 1998 and 1999.
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Year |
Training |
Citation |
Suspension & Fine |
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1996 |
91 |
21 |
1 |
|
1997 |
41 |
34 |
9 |
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1998 |
22 |
30 |
18 |
|
1999 |
14 |
16 |
11 |
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2000 |
Program inactive |
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2001 |
62 |
32 |
0 |
Enforcement actions taken in 2001 include mandatory tobacco vendor training and citation for the first sale after training or in a 12-month period. The numbers of enforcement actions taken from 1996 through 2001 are given in Table 1.
The following table shows the number of tobacco vendors in each alder district and details the number of vendors checked and the number that sold in November or December 2001.
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Alder Districts |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
|
# Checks |
15 |
8 |
8 |
26 |
5 |
27 |
5 |
33 |
26 |
11 |
9 |
21 |
14 |
11 |
22 |
10 |
38 |
2 |
3 |
13 |
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# Sales |
1 |
2 |
2 |
13 |
4 |
11 |
0 |
13 |
8 |
7 |
3 |
2 |
8 |
3 |
8 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
Report Prepared by: John Hausbeck, Environmental Epidemiologist, MDPH, January 18, 2002
Appendix
The following is a list of tobacco vendors that sold tobacco to a minor during the last round of compliance checks. The "total number of checks" includes all compliance checks performed to date at this location under the current license. The "total number of sales" reports the number of times a compliance check resulted in sale of tobacco to a minor.
Total # Vendor Location License of checks of sales AMERICAN CENTER AMOCO, 5551 EASTPARK BLVD 56678 11 ANGELIC BREWING COMPANY, 322 W JOHNSON ST 32694 22 ANTLER'S TAVERN, 2202 W BROADWAY 192 11 ARGUS FOOD & SPIRITS, 123 E MAIN ST 16726 21 ASIAN MIDWAY FOODS, 301 S PARK ST 3403 112 BABE'S GRILL & SPORTS BAR, 640 W WASHINGTON AVE 38309 11 BABE'S GRILL AND BAR, 5614 SCHROEDER RD 28844 11 BAYMONT INN & SUITES, 8102 EXCELSIOR DR 12902 53 BIG 10 PUB, 1330 REGENT ST 50822 11 BLUE VELVET LOUNGE, 430 W GILMAN ST 58294 11 BOTTLE STOP, 2734 E WASHINGTON AVE 390 134 BUCKEYE INN, 4420 E BUCKEYE RD 4019 11 BUCK'S MADISON SQUARE, 802 REGENT ST 55692 1 1 GARDEN BULL FEATHERS, 303 N HENRY ST 26705 11 CAMPUS GROCERY & DELI, 1314 W JOHNSON ST 4047 134 CAPITOL CENTRE FOODS, 111 N BROOM ST 48146 31 CARDINAL CAFE & BAR, 418 E WILSON ST 2575 22 CARIBOU TAVERN, 703 E JOHNSON ST 3885 11 CASBAH LLC, 119 E MAIN ST 50782 11 CLARK #895, 1601 N STOUGHTON RD 50227 11 CLARK #916, 1129 S PARK ST 50223 10 COACHES SPORTS BAR & GRILL, 439 GRAND CANYON DR 21447 63DREAM LANES,
13 ATLAS CT 471 62 FREEDOM VALU CENTER 2216 UNIVERSITY AVE 2134 136 GENNA'S COCKTAIL LOUNGE, 105 W MAIN ST 45755 11 GREAT DANE PUB AND BREWING 123 E DOTY ST 33191 33PADDY'S BAR & GRILL,
57 S STOUGHTON RD 53587 11 PARADISE LOUNGE, 119 W MAIN ST 979 11 PDQ FOOD STORE #115, 4402 E BUCKEYE RD 32482 112 PDQ STORE #129, 2601 FISH HATCHERY RD 51643 11 PIPE FITTER, 517 STATE ST 2767 51 RAINBOW ROOM, 121 W MAIN ST 50798 11 REGENT STREET LIQUOR, 916 REGENT ST 1643 134 REGENT STREET RETREAT 1206 REGENT ST 3722 11 RISING SONS, 702 S PARK ST 52404 11 SCHWOEGLER PARK TOWNE, 444 GRAND CANYON DR 1223 7