A paper by Bukola Usidame, a new ASPiRE team member from Purdue University, and coauthor
Lisa Henriksen looked at the association between local tobacco retail licensing
ordinances and adult cigarette use in California. They found limited evidence that stronger
licensing laws were associated with lower odds of smoking cigarettes. The authors said
future studies should consider other local tobacco control laws and examine the role of
licensing fees across jurisdictions. Read the paper.