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 July 2020 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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Exposure to the advertisement of toombak at the point-of-sale among adolescents in Khartoum State, Sudan: A cross-sectional study. Almahdi HM, Ali RW, Nasir EF. Tob Prev Cessat. 2020 Mar 13;6:19. doi: 10.18332/tpc/115800. eCollection 2020. PMID: 32548356  

Vape shop identification, density and place characteristics in six metropolitan areas across the US. Berg CJ, Schleicher NC, Johnson TO, Barker DC, Getachew B, Weber A, Park AJ, Patterson A, Dorvil S, Fairman RT, Meyers C, Henriksen L. Prev Med Rep. 2020 May 31;19:101137. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101137. eCollection 2020 Sep. PMID: 32566458

Who sells tobacco, who stops? A comparison across different tobacco retailing schemes. Burton S, Phillips F, Watts C, Kennington K, Scollo M, Lindorff K, Egger S. Tob Control. 2020 Jul 2. pii: tobaccocontrol-2019-055561. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055561. PMID: 32616626

Flavored tobacco sales prohibition (2009) and noncigarette tobacco products in retail stores (2017), New York City. Farley SM, Sisti J, Jasek J, Schroth KRJ. Am J Public Health. 2020 May;110(5):725-730. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305561. Epub 2020 Mar 19. PMID: 32191512

Association between federal and California state policy violation among vape shops and neighbourhood composition in Southern California. Huh J, Meza LR, Galstyan E, Galimov A, Unger JB, Baezconde-Garbanati L, Sussman S. Tob Control. 2020 Jul 1. pii: tobaccocontrol-2020-055657. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-055657. PMID: 32611747

Compliance of smokeless tobacco supply chain actors and products with tobacco control laws in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan: protocol for a multicentre sequential mixed-methods study. Khan Z, Huque R, Sheikh A, Readshaw A, Eckhardt J, Jackson C, Kanaan M, Iqbal R, Akhter Z, Garg S, Singh MM, Ahmad F, Abdullah SM, Javaid A, Khan JA, Han L, Rahman A, Siddiqi K. BMJ Open. 2020 Jun 17;10(6):e036468. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036468. PMID: 32554728

The importance of loose tobacco when considering capping pack size. Moodie C, Stead M. Addiction. 2020 May;115(5):812-814. doi: 10.1111/add.14921. Epub 2020 Jan 17. No abstract available. PMID: 31951061

Removal of point-of-sale tobacco displays in Bogor city, Indonesia: A spatial analysis. Priyono B, Hafidhah B, Wihardini W, Nuryunawati R, Rahmadi FM, Kusuma D. Tob Prev Cessat. 2020 Apr 6;6:22. doi: 10.18332/tpc/118236. eCollection 2020. PMID: 32548359

Assessment of incorporation of lessons from tobacco control in city and county laws regulating legal marijuana in California. Silver LD, Naprawa AZ, Padon AA. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Jun 1;3(6):e208393. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.8393. PMID: 32558915

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