While the statewide ban went into effect in December last year, several other cities and counties already had flavored tobacco bans in place - including Sunnyvale
The economic factors involve production costs, pricing strategies, taxes and consumer preferences
officials no longer use trade measures to pry open emerging economies to imported cigarettes, as had been done throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and, despite occasional, significant congressional pressure, have also refrained from trade disputes against other countries tobacco control measures
The process itself was informative and encouraged multiple perspectives to be represented, particularly the perspectives of AI TPS as local implementers
These factors were supplemented by others pertaining more directly to myself and to my own interests