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Kunz, Charlotte B.; Jason, Leonard A.; Adams, Monica; Pokorny, Steven B. – Journal of Drug Education, 2009
Researchers are only beginning to investigate how to measure a community's readiness to engage in an intervention. In this study, we investigated the readiness of police departments to deal with tobacco policies about youth access to tobacco and youth possession of tobacco. Police officers in 24 towns completed structured interviews designed to…
Descriptors: Smoking, Police, Interviews, Intervention
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Jason, Leonard A.; Pokorny, Steven B.; Adams, Monica; Nihls, Annie; Kim, Hyo Yeon; Hunt, Yvonne – Journal of Community Psychology, 2010
This study evaluated the influence of tobacco possession-use-purchase (PUP) law enforcement and illicit drug use and offers. Twenty-four towns were randomly assigned into two conditions. Both conditions focused on reducing minors' access to commercial sources of tobacco. The communities assigned to the experimental condition also increased their…
Descriptors: Smoking, Narcotics, Drug Use, Law Enforcement