Alpine County (Alpine County Tobacco Control Program)

Alpine County’s geography spans the Sierra Nevada mountain range between Lake

Tahoe and Yosemite. The population is approximately 1,115 – the smallest of all

California counties. The Tobacco Control Program (TCP) has three objectives to best

serve this unique community through the 2017-21 contract period:

1. To reduce the availability of tobacco by eliminating the sale of flavored tobacco

products and electronic smoking devices.

2. To reduce exposure to secondhand smoke in indoor and outdoor areas by including

tobacco control elements in general plans, building codes, permitting process, and zoning

requirements.

3. To promote tobacco cessation by establishing tobacco use assessment and cessation

referral and treatment services in the local public and behavioral health clinics.

4. To create five new partnerships with organizations serving or addressing low income,

rural, youth, and American Indian organizations as evidenced by one or more of the

following: integration of tobacco use prevention and cessation messaging and educational

activities into the organizations’ practices.