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A qualitative review of published research that evaluated tobacco sales policies found a moderate to high quality of evidence associating policies with reduced availability, marketing, and sales of policy-restricted products, as well as decreased youth and adult tobacco use of the products. But the authors also found policy exclusions and exemptions, implementation challenges, tobacco industry [...]
Statewide restrictions on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes in Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington were associated with a reduction in total e-cigarette sales, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The authors say their findings suggest that not all e-cigarette users who purchased non-tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes switched to [...]
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously June 1 to ban the sale of all flavored tobacco products except flavored shisha tobacco, allowing it to be sold in some hookah lounges. The law does not ban the possession or use of flavored tobacco, only its sale. The ban is scheduled to go into effect January [...]
An ASPiRE team led by Todd Combs combined geospatial data on residential and tobacco retailer density in our CAB cities and found that a large majority of urban residents live in tobacco swamps – neighborhoods where there is a glut of tobacco retailers. Their study, published in Health & Place, simulated the effects of tobacco [...]
A study examined the effects of flavored tobacco sales restrictions San Francisco and other Bay Area communities, as well as the implementation of a $2 increase in tobacco excise tax. They found that average cigarette prices increased significantly more in cities with flavor policies, leading the authors to conclude that the local policies may have [...]
The CDC Foundation has released new e-cigarette sales data in national and state briefs with sales by e-cigarette flavor and device types through March 2023. One state brief shows that following California’s flavored e-cigarette restrictions, monthly e-cigarette total unit sales decreased by 35.2% from December 4, 2022, a decline representing 27.8% of the decline in [...]
ASPiRE’s Lisa Henriksen, Trent Johnson, and Nina Schleicher co-authored another T21 study, which examined the impact of state-level T21 laws on age verification of cigarette and e-cigarette purchases among young adults before and after implementation of the federal T21 policy. They found that state T21 status correlated with age verification for e-cigarettes but not cigarettes. [...]
CounterTobacco recently hosted “Better Conversations about Health Equity and Tobacco Point of Sale Strategies,” a webinar about messaging on the topics of tobacco sales and health equity. Experts addressed questions like: “How can we talk about health equity in ways that resonate?” and other effective ways to message about health equity, as well as best practices to [...]
Henriksen, Johnson, and Schleicher were co-authors of a study that looked at promotional strategies, products, and compliance with regulations among vape shops in Atlanta, Boston, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, San Diego, and Seattle in 2018 and 2021. They found that with increasing restrictions, fewer shops sold their own e-liquid brands or accommodated on-site use/sampling, but fewer [...]
ASPiRE’s Amanda Kong and Joseph Lee are co-authors of a study conducted in 2019-22 in which buyers aged 18-20 tried to buy cigarettes, cigars, e-cigarettes, nicotine pouches, and smokeless tobacco at retail stores in New Jersey, New York City and Pitt County, N.C. Buyers documented whether they were asked for identification and whether they were [...]