Project: Tobacco Town

Veronica Chaitan from our WashU 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. [...]

An ASPiRE team led by Todd Combs combined geospatial data on residential and tobacco retailer density in our CAB cities and found that a large majority of urban residents live in tobacco swamps – neighborhoods where there is a glut of tobacco retailers. Their study, published in Health & Place, simulated the effects of tobacco [...]

This presentation was delivered by Todd Combs at the CDC OSH National Tobacco Control Program Awardee Meeting in 2022. [...]

This interactive dashboard has maps for all 30 cities represented the ASPiRE Community Advisory Board. Tobacco control programs and other stakeholders can explore and compare projections for retailer density policies within and across the CAB cities. [...]

A brief on research using the Tobacco Town computer model, which found that combination of retail policies can increase cigarette costs, thereby reducing disparities. [...]

A brief summarizing a paper describing the use of a computer model to test the effect of retail restrictions on retailer density, the cost of cigarettes, and the distance customers travel to buy cigarettes. The paper concluded that combining restrictions on menthol sales and retailer density could increase costs in low-income areas, and that the [...]

A paper suggesting that agent-based modeling may be an effective way to test the impact of retail-based tobacco. The paper concludes that context matters: limiting access to tobacco through retailer density reduction has varying results depending on community type. [...]

A presentation describing agent-based modeling and its use in studying tobacco retail policy implementation and its effect on retail density and cost. [...]