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.   

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Policies regulating retail environment to reduce tobacco availability: A scoping review. Alebshehy R, Asif Z, Boeckmann M. Front Public Health. 2023 Feb 14;11:975065. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.975065. eCollection 2023. PMID: 36866095 Free PMC article. Review.

Changes in the Point-of-Sale Among Vape Shops in 6 US Metropolitan Areas Over Time, 2018-2021. Berg CJ, Romm KF, Barker DC, Schleicher N, Johnson TO, Wang Y, Sussman S, Henriksen L. Nicotine Tob Res. 2023 Mar 23:ntad046. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntad046. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36951602

The Impact of Digital Health on Smoking Cessation. Cobos-Campos R, Cordero-Guevara JA, Apiñaniz A, de Lafuente AS, Bermúdez Ampudia C, Argaluza Escudero J, Pérez Llanos I, Parraza Diez N. Interact J Med Res. 2023 Mar 15;12:e41182. doi: 10.2196/41182. PMID: 36920468

Reigniting tobacco control: returning Australia to the front of the pack. Freeman B. Public Health Res Pract. 2023 Mar 15;33(1):3312304. doi: 10.17061/phrp3312304. PMID: 36918392

Rapid-response surveillance of the first US test market for VLN cigarettes. Henriksen L, Johnson TO, Mahoney M, Schleicher NC, Ali A, Prochaska JJ. Tob Control. 2023 Mar 16:tc-2022-057888. doi: 10.1136/tc-2022-057888. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36927515

Assessing the Effectiveness of Tobacco 21 Laws to Reduce Underage Access to Tobacco: Protocol for a Repeated Multi-Site Study. Hrywna M, Kong AY, Ackerman C, Giovenco DP, Spillane TE, Lee JGL, Hudson SV, Delnevo CD. Methods Protoc. 2023 Mar 10;6(2):27. doi: 10.3390/mps6020027. PMID: 36961047 Free PMC article.

Life Expectancy and Built Environments in the U.S.: A Multilevel Analysis. Kim B, Spoer BR, Titus AR, Chen A, Thurston GD, Gourevitch MN, Thorpe LE. Am J Prev Med. 2023 Apr;64(4):468-476. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2022.10.008. PMID: 36935164

Neighborhood Characteristics and the Burden of E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury: An Ecological Comparison Study. Lee H, Weerakoon SM, Harrell MB, Messiah SE, Rao DR. Pediatr Allergy Immunol Pulmonol. 2023 Mar;36(1):16-22. doi: 10.1089/ped.2022.0133. PMID: 36930825

Youth tobacco use before and after flavoured tobacco sales restrictions in Oakland, California and San Francisco, California. Liu J, Hartman L, Tan ASL, Winickoff JP. Tob Control. 2023 Apr;32(e1):e118-e120. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-057135. Epub 2022 Mar 17. PMID: 35301257

How are retailers describing Delta-8 THC? A mixed-methods study in Fort Worth, Texas. LoParco CR, Olsson SE, Greene KM, Livingston MD, Henry D, Trangenstein PJ, Walker A, Rossheim ME. J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2022 Nov 14. doi: 10.15288/jsad.22-00287. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36971730

Proportions of and trends in exposure to pro-tobacco and anti-tobacco advertisements among young adolescents aged 12-16 years in 142 countries and territories, 1999-2018: an analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys. Ma C, Yang H, Sun J, Zhao M, Magnussen CG, Xi B. Lancet Glob Health. 2023 Apr;11(4):e586-e596. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00041-4. PMID: 36925178

Stepwise Tobacco Price Increase and Smoking Behavioral Changes in Japan: The Japan “Society and New Tobacco” Internet Survey 2017-2021 Longitudinal Study. Matsuyama Y, Tabuchi T. Nicotine Tob Res. 2023 Mar 22;25(4):657-664. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntac254. PMID: 36331077

Public support for policies to regulate flavoured tobacco and e-cigarette products in rural California. Payán DD, Burke NJ, Persinger J, Martinez J, Jones Barker L, Song AV. Tob Control. 2023 Apr;32(e1):e125-e129. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-057031. Epub 2022 Jan 21. PMID: 35064014 Free PMC article.

Impacts of Tax and Flavor Tobacco Policies on San Francisco Bay Area Tobacco Prices. Pravosud V, Holmes LM, Lempert LK, Ling PM. Eval Rev. 2023 Mar 21:193841X231164908. doi: 10.1177/0193841X231164908. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36943027

Cigarette taxation and neonatal and infant mortality: A longitudinal analysis of 159 countries. Radó MK, Laverty AA, Hone T, Chang K, Jawad M, Millett C, Been JV, Filippidis FT. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2022 Mar 16;2(3):e0000042. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000042. eCollection 2022. PMID: 36962262 Free PMC article.

Urban-rural differences in tobacco product availability in food retailers, United States, 2017. Reimold AE, Kong AY, Delamater PL, Baggett CD, Golden SD. J Rural Health. 2023 Mar;39(2):338-346. doi: 10.1111/jrh.12687. Epub 2022 Jun 16. PMID: 35708094

Rates of age verification for cigarette and e-cigarette purchases as a function of state T21 laws before and after implementation of the federal T21 law in the United States. Romm KF, Wang Y, Schleicher NC, Pannel A, Williams R, Berg CJ, Henriksen L. Nicotine Tob Res. 2023 Mar 21:ntad044. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntad044. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36943250

Law compliance, why do we need it? Comparative data from the Brazilian National Survey of School Health (PeNSE) on adolescents’ access to cigarettes. Szklo AS, Bertoni N. Cad Saude Publica. 2023 Mar 3;39(2):e00145722. doi: 10.1590/0102-311XPT145722. eCollection 2023. PMID: 36888815 English, Portuguese.

Potential impacts of spatial restrictions on tobacco retail availability in China: a simulation study in Shanghai. Zheng C, Pearce J, Feng Z. Tob Control. 2023 Mar 8:tc-2022-057704. doi: 10.1136/tc-2022-057704. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36889913

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, February 2021, March 2021, April 2021, May 2021, June 2021, July 2021, August 2021, September 2021, October 2021, December 2021, January 2022, February 2022, March 2022, April 2022, May 2022, June 2022, July 2022, August 2022, September 2022, October 2022, November 2022, December 2022, January 2023, February 2023