New tobacco products require new surveillance methods
New tobacco products require new surveillance methods
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 secure the latest retail information to use in public health interventions. Read the report.