This study with ASPiRE authors Kong, Golden, Ribisl, and Vandegrift evaluates compliance with a US Department of Defense (DoD) policy requiring stores on military bases to set tobacco prices comparable to stores in the surrounding community. The authors conducted store audits of 23 on-base and 50 off-base retailers in Texas. They found the median price of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products was cheaper at on-base stores than off-base stores, despite DoD policy. The authors suggest more specific policy language on the definition of the “local community” may make it easier to identify off-base retailers and assess policy compliance. They also recommend changing the policy definition of the off-base “prevailing price” from the mode or most common price, which is often impossible to calculate in a relatively small area, to the mean or median of local prices. Read the paper.