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An interactive report from the Council on Foreign Relations examines how nationwide bans on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, as proposed by the Biden administration on April 28, 2022, could help shrink the racial gap in U.S. lung cancer death rates. “We find that the ban, if implemented effectively, would indeed close the disparity in [...]
A 2022 Truth Initiative tracking survey of nearly 1,300 people age 15-20 who use e-cigarettes found that while most obtained their devices through a social source, 43% got them from a retail source. Most popular sources were vape shops and gas stations/convenience stores. The youths got their devices despite federal, state, and local policies that [...]
Last year, the FDA authorized the sale of the first low-nicotine cigarettes as modified-risk tobacco products, and a survey of the first retail test market in Chicago was recently published by ASPiRE’s Lisa Henriksen and co-authors. Researchers called all 133 Chicago-area Circle K stores and later visited those stores to asses VLN product placement, advertising, [...]
An evaluation team led by ASPiRE’s Todd Combs and Veronica Chaitan, in collaboration with Interact for Health of Ohio, recently released a report of the team’s findings from a study of the successful efforts to pass, implement, and enforce Tobacco 21 in local communities. The report found that retailer support for Tobacco 21 increased during the [...]
A CDC study co-authored by ASPiRE’s Maggie Mahoney found that nearly two-thirds of adults support prohibiting menthol cigarette sales, while more than half support prohibiting all sales of tobacco products. The findings were based on a web panel survey of 6,455 U.S. adults age 18 or older. No significant racial and ethnic group differences were [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]