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Talking with conservative decision makers

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Discussion-based

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Virtual calls are sometimes not engaging

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My LPHA is not doing policy work

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Decision-maker meeting role play

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To build confidence in talking about tobacco control policies

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I am the only person in my LPHA on the STEPP grant, and would love to have that sense of community with other grantees in similar positions that larger departments get within their own organizations!

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Code-switching when talking to rural community members

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Code-switching when talking to rural community members

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I get way more buy-in from my rural communities using words like "justice" and "fairness" than "equity".

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Big differences within different parts of the county

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Big differences within different parts of the county

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Engagement and policy efforts look so different from our more mountain focused town to our more rural areas within our county.

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Examples of some of the more rural open comment opposition talking points (freedom, choice, parental responsibility, punishment, etc.)

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Would love to see what other Rural grantees are working on!

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We are not yet to policy work in our community. But our concerns is that we are so rural, will we have people on our side to pass a policy?

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Will there be an agenda and not just open talk? Because if there is just open talk, people tends to not engage

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Due to the economically struggling nature of our rural community (and likely many like it) it is difficult to get buy-in or approval from decision makers if the counter to the proposed policy is that it will hurt businesses/dissuade prospective businesses/harm the economy (my thoughts are policies that cap or otherwise restrict retail or that extend secondhand smoke limits). Any thoughts or pointers on how to counter financial arguments or effectively include financial costs to the community of tobacco use would be helpful!

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Any direction on how to find data points (or share among work group members) for strategies and policies that have or have not worked in rural communities would be appreciated! It helps in gaining buy-in if we can say this worked in XYZ community with similar demographics.