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 March 2023 PubMed search results are now available. Check them out! And check back after the first Tuesday of each month for a new list. [...]
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 February 2023 PubMed search results are now available. Check them out! And check back after the first Tuesday of each month for a new list. [...]
ASPiRE partner, the Public Health Law Center, released a “best practices” summary for inspections of tobacco retailers to ensure compliance with laws that restrict the minimum legal sales age or sales restrictions on flavored tobacco. Topics include the frequency of checks, responses to violations, and focusing on “high risk” retailers, such as those with previous [...]
The New York Times reported that R.J. Reynolds has responded to California’s prohibition on the sale of most flavored tobacco products with a marketing campaign touting new nonmenthol versions of Camel and Newport brands that it says offer “a taste that satisfies the senses” and “a new fresh twist.” The California law prohibits the sale [...]
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 [...]
A study of 242 tobacco retailers in Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, and North Carolina examined the availability of nicotine pouches and disposable e-cigarettes. Researchers found that pouches were more likely to be available in census tracts with a greater percentage of non-Hispanic White residents, while disposable e-cigarettes were more likely to be available in [...]
A recently published study by ASPiRE’s Amanda Kong and Joseph Lee found greater tobacco and alcohol product availability in North Carolina communities with highly concentrated racial or economic segregation. Researchers created a list of probable tobacco retailers, along with a list of alcohol retailers from the state alcohol commission and compared then to three census [...]
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 January 2023 PubMed search results are now available. Check them out! And check back after the first Tuesday of each month for a new list. [...]
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 December 2022 PubMed search results are now available. Check them out! And check back after the first Tuesday of each month for a new list. [...]
A webinar by the University of California-San Francisco’s Smoking Cessation Leadership Center focused on the projected impacts of cigarette tax increases and other interventions in Tobacco Nation, the 13 states in the southern and midwestern U.S. with disproportionately high rates of smoking. Speakers were Emily Donovan, senior researcher for Truth Nation in Washington; and Michael [...]