We’re excited to announce our award of one ASPiRE pilot grant for 2022: What do you think? Experts weigh in on the feasibility and impact of various retail tobacco policies

New policies for tobacco control might be easy to propose, but harder to get approved and implemented. Todd Combs (Center for Public Health Systems Science at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis) will survey experts and practitioners–including CAB members–about the legal feasibility, ease of enforcement, and impacts of various retail tobacco control policies, including retailer licensing and a range of tobacco sales restrictions, from a prohibition of all flavored sales, to prohibiting tobacco sales altogether. This study will update and expand the policy feasibility analysis of the 2014 Point-of-Sale Strategies: a Tobacco Control Guide created by the Center for Public Health Systems Science and the Public Health Law Center. Combs and team will disseminate results primarily via practical and useful tools and brief reports for public health practitioners and decision-makers. Once the project is underway, the team will be reaching out to CAB members and others in the field to invite their participation.