Project overview
Led by a team at Stanford University, this project seeks to understand how the tobacco retail environment in a city may impede efforts to quit smoking. The study evaluates the benefits of local policies to regulate and limit the retail availability of tobacco. Researchers are surveying a group of 2,400 adult smokers 5 times over 30 months and examine changes over time.
What’s New
Check out our new Tobacco Retailer Mapping study. Our Stanford team mapped tobacco retailers in the 30 cities represented on our ASPiRE Community Advisory Board. We developed tailored Tobacco Retailer Density Fact Sheets and “Tobacco Swamps” Maps to provide each city with usable snapshots of its tobacco retail environment. Use these resources, along with shareable social graphics and press releases, to support the increasing number of local tobacco control interventions that address the retail environment.
Co-Leaders
Lisa Henriksen and Jodi Prochaska
“This is a collaborative effort with local tobacco control programs in 30 large cities, home to 1 in 6 U.S. residents. Our partners at the Public Health Law Center and the University of Kentucky Center for Health Equity Transformation will help us document how local policies change and identify their impact on retail availability and tobacco use, particularly menthol and other flavored products use in lower-income neighborhoods.” — Lisa Henriksen
Products related to this project
Evaluations of compliance with California’s first tobacco sales bans and tobacco marketing in restricted and cross-border stores
An ASPiRE team that included Lisa Henriksen, Trent Johnson, and Nina Schleicher examined compliance with California’s first tobacco sales bans and also looked at tobacco marketing in cross-border stores. They found that within 6 to 12 months of implementation, nearly all retailers had complied with the bans. They also found that tobacco marketing in stores was nearly eliminated in [...]
Perceived helpfulness of tobacco control policies for supporting cessation: a survey in 30 cities across the US with adults who smoke daily
Erin Vogel from our Stanford team team shared this presentation as part of an ASPiRE panel at the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco 2023 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas on March 3. See the presentation slides. [...]
How Much for Marlboro? Change in Price From a Cohort of Retailers in 30 Major US Cities During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This poster was presented at the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT) Annual Conference in 2023. [...]
The impact of recent tobacco regulations and COVID-19 restrictions and implications for future e-cigarette retail: perspectives from vape and vape-and-smoke shop merchants
Vape retailers in six U.S. cities expressed concern about the impact of regulations, their perceived insufficiency of evidence behind them, and the challenges of explaining them to customers, according to a new paper co-authored by Lisa Henriksen, Nina Schleicher, and Trent Johnson. Researchers surveyed 60 owners or managers of vape of vape-and-smoke shops in Atlanta, [...]
Young people’s e-cigarette risk perceptions, policy attitudes, and past-month nicotine vaping in 30 U.S. cities
Read the paper. [...]
Perceived Susceptibility to and Seriousness of COVID-19: Associations of Risk Perceptions with Changes in Smoking Behavior
Read the paper. [...]
Tobacco Sales Fact Sheets for 29 CAB Cities
Set of 29 Tobacco Sales Fact Sheets for the 29 of the cities represented on the ASPiRE Community Advisory Board (CAB). These sheets present statistics about tobacco sales in 2019, including cigarettes, vaping products, smokeless tobacco, cigars, and loose/pipe tobacco. [...]
Individual & Policy Correlates of E-cigarette Use among Adult Smokers in 30 Major U.S. Cities
This slide and audio presentation was presented at the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT) Annual Conference in 2021. [...]
Sales of “Tobacco-Free” Nicotine Pouches in 30 Major U.S. Cities
This slide presentation with audio was presented at the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT) Annual Conference in 2021. [...]
Tobacco Swamps Maps for 30 CAB Cities
Set of 30 Tobacco Swamps Maps for the 30 cities represented on the ASPiRE Community Advisory Board (CAB). [...]