The second issue of Tobacco Control focusing on the retail environment features an analysis by ASPiRE’s Lisa Henriksen. “A global proliferation of tobacco and nicotine products poses challenges for surveillance, prevention, cessation, regulation, and enforcement,” she writes. Two of the 17 studies in the e-issue evaluate tobacco sales bans, an endgame strategy that was unimaginable two decades ago. “This e-issue adds to a growing body of evidence that comprehensive tobacco control requires retail regulations to complement effective media campaigns, tobacco taxes, and smoke-free air policies.”

Read the analysis.