At the beginning of 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 2021 PubMed search results are now available. Check them out! And check back after the first Tuesday of each month for a new list.    

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Potential revenue from taxing e-cigarettes and comparison of annual costs of daily e-cigarette use versus daily cigarette smoking among South African adults. Agaku IT, Egbe CO, Ayo-Yusuf OA. Tob Induc Dis. 2021 Jan 29;19:07. doi: 10.18332/tid/131861. eCollection 2021. PMID: 33542679

Identifying tobacco retailers in the absence of a licensing system: Lessons from Australia. Baker J, Masood M, Rahman MA, Thornton L, Begg S. Tob Control. 2021 Feb 1:tobaccocontrol-2020-055977. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-055977. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33526443

Retailer density reduction approaches to tobacco control: A review. Glasser AM, Roberts ME. Health Place. 2021 Jan;67:102342. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102342. Epub 2020 Apr 27. PMID: 33526207 Review.

Implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Tunisia: Progress and challenges. Harizi C, El-Awa F, Ghedira H, Audera-Lopez C, Fakhfakh R. Tob Prev Cessat. 2020 Dec 22;6:72. doi: 10.18332/tpc/130476. eCollection 2020. PMID: 33426382

Flavoured tobacco product restrictions in Massachusetts associated with reductions in adolescent cigarette and e-cigarette use. Hawkins SS, Kruzik C, O’Brien M, Levine Coley R. Tob Control. 2021 Jan 27:tobaccocontrol-2020-056159. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-056159. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33504582

Association between density and proximity of tobacco retail outlets with smoking: A systematic review of youth studies. Marsh L, Vaneckova P, Robertson L, Johnson TO, Doscher C, Raskind IG, Schleicher NC, Henriksen L. Health Place. 2021 Jan;67:102275. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102275. Epub 2020 Mar 5. PMID: 33526204

Examining how changes in provincial policy on vape marketing impacted the distribution of vaping advertisements near secondary schools in London, Ontario. Martin G, Bowman DD, Graat M, Clark AF, Wray AJ, Askwith Z, Seabrook JA, Gilliland JA. Can J Public Health. 2021 Jan 6. doi: 10.17269/s41997-020-00453-9. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33410122

Longitudinal tracking of vape shop compliance with state business regulations within Southern California ethnic neighborhoods during the COVID-19 pandemic. Medel D, Galimov A, Meza L, Steinberg JK, Berg CJ, Baezconde-Garbanati L, Sussman S. Eval Health Prof. 2021 Jan 7:163278720985584. doi: 10.1177/0163278720985584. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33406901

Public support for cigarette price increase in Indonesia. Nurhasana R, Ratih SP, Dartanto T, Moeis FR, Hartono RK, Satrya A, Thabrany H. Tob Control. 2020 Dec 18:tobaccocontrol-2019-055554. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055554. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33443191

Changes in cigarillo availability following implementation of a local flavoured tobacco sales restriction. Rogers T, Gammon DG, Coats EM, Nonnemaker JM, Xu X. Tob Control. 2021 Feb 4:tobaccocontrol-2020-056229. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-056229. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33542067

Spatial analysis of outdoor tobacco advertisement around children and adolescents in Indonesia. Sebayang SK, Dewi DMSK, Puspikawati SI, Astutik E, Melaniani S, Kusuma D. Glob Public Health. 2021 Jan 18:1-11. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2020.1869800. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33460337

Smokeless tobacco products, supply chain and retailers’ practices in England: a multimethods study to inform policy. Siddiqui F, Khan T, Readshaw A, Croucher R, Dockrell M, Jackson C, Kanaan M, McCambridge J, McNeill A, Parrott S, Sheikh A, Siddiqi K. Tob Control. 2021 Jan 7:tobaccocontrol-2020-055830. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-055830. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33414267

Exposure to cigar Point-of-Sale marketing and use of cigars and cigarettes among young adults.  Zhu Y, Pasch KE, Loukas A, Sterling KL, Perry CL. Addict Behav. 2021 Jan 9;116:106821. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.106821. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33482429

The above papers are the results of the following PubMed search:

(tobacco products[mesh] OR tobacco[tiab] OR tobacco industry[mesh] OR (smoking[mesh] NOT marijuana smoking[mesh]) OR smoking[tiab] OR cigarette[tiab] OR cigarettes[tiab] OR cigar[tiab] OR cigars[tiab] OR cigarillo[tiab] OR cigarillos[tiab] OR ends[tiab] OR “electronic nicotine device”[tiab] OR “electronic nicotine devices”[tiab] OR “heat not burn”[tiab] OR heat-not-burn[tiab] OR vaping[tiab] OR vapes[tiab] OR vape[tiab] OR heatstick[tiab] OR heatsticks[tiab] OR “heated tobacco product”[tiab] OR “heated tobacco products”[tiab] OR “non-cigarette tobacco product”[tiab] OR “non-cigarette tobacco products”[tiab]) AND (store[tiab] OR stores[tiab] OR “point of sale”[tiab] OR “points of sale”[tiab] OR retail[tiab] OR retailers[tiab] OR retailer[tiab] OR retailing[tiab] OR shop[tiab] OR “gas station”[tiab] OR “gas stations”[tiab] OR “point of purchase”[tiab] OR “points of purchase”[tiab] OR outlet[tiab] OR outlets[tiab] OR “milk bars”[tiab] OR newsstands[tiab])

Previous literature reviews: June 2020, July 2020, August 2020, September 2020, October 2020, November 2020, December 2020, January 2021