Advancing Science & Practice in the Retail Environment: An NCI-funded Center
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A webinar by the University of California-San Francisco’s Smoking Cessation Leadership Center focused on the projected impacts of cigarette tax increases and other interventions in Tobacco Nation, the 13 states in the southern and midwestern U.S. with disproportionately high rates of smoking. Speakers were Emily Donovan, senior researcher for Truth Nation in Washington; and Michael [...]
A research team led by Daniel P. Giovenco of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health used a packaging archive of the top-selling, mass-market cigar products in the U.S. and their corresponding sales data to assess the prevalence of common pack features in the marketplace. They found that the most popular brand did not display [...]
A partnership between CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health and the Center for Public Health Systems Science at Washington University is developing a new set of supplements to CDC’s popular Best Practices User Guides for tobacco control. The second and third supplements on Mapping Techniques and Retail Strategies to Support Health Equity are now available. [...]
On December 6, a federal judge in Washington ordered the major U.S. tobacco companies to post signs next year at nearly 200,000 retail outlets that sell cigarettes, warning potential buyers of the health risks. The order will fully implement the “corrective statements” the tobacco companies were first ordered to make in 2006, when U.S. District [...]
An evaluation of the 2018 menthol tobacco sales restrictions implemented in Minneapolis and Duluth found mixed reactions among youth ages 14-17. Many of the youth who were interviewed obtain tobacco through peers, family members, and online. The youth observed decreases in retail advertising of menthol cigarettes, although many felt e-cigarettes and online advertising were more [...]
A study by researchers in New York examined changes in nicotine product use among youth after the passage of a statewide restriction on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes in 2020. The team conducted online surveys of youth ages 16-19. Over a two-year period, they found significant decreases in past 30-day e-cigarette use, cigarette use, and [...]
Enforcement of Tobacco 21 laws was the subject of a paper co-authored by ASPiRE’s Amanda Kong. Researchers focused on New Jersey, one of several states that increased the tobacco age-of-sale to 21 prior to passage of the federal law in 2019. The study sent five buyers aged 18-20 to 86 retailers between August 2019 and [...]
A study co-authored by ASPiRE’s Lisa Henriksen examined possible unintended consequences of restricting tobacco sales to state-owned liquor stores in the 12 states with government retail monopolies on liquor. Researchers examined survey data from nearly 15,000 adults who responded to the 2015 or 2020 U.S. National Alcohol Survey, including more than 2,000 in one of [...]
ASPiRE’s Joseph G.L. Lee (East Carolina University) and ASPiRE partner Shyanika W. Rose (University of Kentucky) co-authored a study that audited retailers in four states to analyze neighborhood distribution of the availability of disposable e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches. Both products were available in about half the stores audited in Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, and [...]
Contracts between tobacco companies and retailers was the subject of an October 21 podcast from Counter Tobacco, featuring ASPiRE’s Allie Reimold (UNC). We learned about the impact of those contracts on the retail environment at our May 2021 CAB meeting. For more details, read the paper she co-authored in Tobacco Control, which concluded that those [...]