Subject: E-Cigarettes

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 [...]

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 [...]

Our ASPiRE 2022 Year in Review includes an overview of tobacco retail policies implemented in our 30 CAB cities and a summary of scientific and translational products published by the ASPiRE Center in 2022. [...]

This case study tells the story of the development and implementation of Saint Paul, Minnesota’s 2021 comprehensive retail tobacco ordinance. The case study details the policy development process; highlights the important partnership among the Association for Nonsmokers-Minnesota, the Saint Paul City Council, and the Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota; [...]

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, [...]

This 3-page product includes an overview of tobacco retail policies implemented in our 30 CAB cities and a summary of scientific and translational products published by the ASPiRE Center in 2021. [...]

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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. [...]

This fact sheet presents statistics about tobacco sales in Washington, DC, in 2019, including cigarettes, vaping products, smokeless tobacco, cigars, and loose/pipe tobacco. [...]