COVID-19 Archives - ASPiRE Center

Report Brief or Research Brief, 2023

Tobacco Retail Policy Trends in 2022

Between March and May 2022, we interviewed tobacco control program managers or coalition members in each of our 30 ASPiRE Community Advisory Board (CAB) cities about their retail policy efforts. We also conducted an online survey of state tobacco control program managers in all 50 states. We collected data on Retail Policy Activity, Barriers, and [...]

Buffer Policies, COVID-19, E-Cigarettes, Emerging Products, Enforcement, Flavors, including Menthol, Health Equity, Licensing, Preemption, Price, Retail Density, State & Local Experiences, Store Assessments, Tobacco Retailers, Youth

Presentation or Poster, 2023

Retail tobacco policy efforts and implementation barriers in the United States: Insights from practitioners in 30 big US cities

Stephanie Andersen from our UNC 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. [...]

COVID-19, Enforcement, Health Equity, Preemption, State & Local Experiences, Store Assessments

Presentation or Poster, 2023

How Much for Marlboro? Change in Price From a Cohort of Retailers in 30 Major US Cities During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Thumbnail of SRNT 2023 poster on Marlboro cigarette prices during COVID

This poster was presented at the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT) Annual Conference in 2023. [...]

COVID-19, Price, State & Local Experiences, Tobacco Retailers

Research Article, 2022

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, [...]

COVID-19, E-Cigarettes, State & Local Experiences, Tobacco Retailers

Research Article, 2021