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Compliance Check Campaign <br />The Effect of Youth Access Ordinances <br />October 1995 - April 1996 <br />50 — <br />45 — <br />40 — <br />2 35 — <br />b <br />tn° 30 <br />25 <br />0 20 — <br />0 15— <br />0) 10— <br />a 5— <br />0 <br />49% <br />21% <br />No Ordinance <br />In Place <br />Youth Access <br />Ordinance <br />In Place <br />In communities without youth access ordinances, stores were <br />over two times more likely to sell tobacco to minors. <br />Average percentages for stores that sold tobacco to minors. <br />914 stores in Minnesota were checked from October 1995 through April 1996. <br />1. To qualify as a community with a youth access ordinance, at least two of the following criteria had to be in the <br />ordinance: (1) tobacco vendors are licensed, (2) periodic compliance checks are conducted, or (3) fines and/or <br />penalties in place for non - compliant stores. <br />2. The ordinance had to be in effect when the compliance checks were conducted. <br />Minnesota <br />SIST <br />Camuk/ V=1a a tctxoftu N*mmet <br />Minnesota <br />Depcnmcnl <br />of Health <br />Page 145 <br />