Advancing Science & Practice in the Retail Environment: An NCI-funded Center
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Each month, we conduct a search of the PubMed database for new peer-reviewed articles on the retail tobacco environment and policy. Many of these articles are available for FREE. The September 2022 PubMed search results are now available. Check them out! And check back after the first Tuesday of each month for a new list. [...]
Researchers from the University of Texas audited advertising data from convenience stores and gas stations around middle and high schools in the state’s metro areas, then simulated a 1,000-foot ban of tobacco sales around the schools. They found that schools with a higher enrollment of Hispanic/Latino and economically disadvantaged students were surrounded by more advertising [...]
Retail tobacco sales data may be a good alternative to the traditional “gold standard” tobacco retail surveys to better adapt to the rapidly changing tobacco retail landscape, reports the CDC Foundation in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The proliferation of new kinds of e-cigarettes and other tobacco products will require new methods to rapidly [...]
Photos of cigarettes displayed on the shelves of 160 New York City tobacco retailers were used by New York University researchers to document the potential impact of a menthol cigarette ban. Menthol cigarettes displays averaged about 25% of the displayed cigarettes overall, but that percentage was significantly greater in areas with higher smoking rates, with [...]
Researchers from Boston College found that county-level restrictions on flavored tobacco products were associated with reduced use of cigarettes and e-cigarettes by adolescents in Massachusetts. The local restrictions limited the sale of flavored tobacco products to adult-only retail tobacco stores. “Local legislation can reduce adolescent tobacco use, and municipalities should enact stricter tobacco-control policies when [...]
Recent studies have estimated the harm of menthol cigarettes in the U.S. from 1980-2018 among both the general population as well as among African Americans specifically, and have estimated the public health impact of a US ban on menthol in cigarettes and cigars in the general population. The FDA’s proposed rule cited these impactful studies [...]
Counter Tools and Truth Initiative partnered in 2018 to develop retail tobacco store assessment questions focused on menthol and other flavored products; those questions were later revised to include e-cigarettes. Now, a new report assessing marketing at retailers in five cities in Illinois, Missouri, and Ohio (including Cleveland) is available on-line, with downloadable resources. See [...]
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 Tobacco Where You Live supplements help state and local programs understand how commercial tobacco use varies within [...]
In an effort led by Sarah Mills, ASPiRE has filed a public comment with the Food and Drug Administration describing the public-health benefits of a comprehensive ban on the sale of menthol-flavored cigarettes, proposed by the FDA in April. The filing cited numerous studies that provide evidence that menthol is associated with the initiation of [...]
Each month, we conduct a search of the PubMed database for new peer-reviewed articles on the retail tobacco environment and policy. Many of these articles are available for FREE. The August 2022 PubMed search results are now available. Check them out! And check back after the first Tuesday of each month for a new list. [...]