Advancing Science & Practice in the Retail Environment: An NCI-funded Center
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An ASPiRE team that included Shelley Golden, Todd Combs, Kurt Ribisl, and Chris Baggett examined the role of consumer demand and supply of tobacco in the retail environment in the association between tobacco retailer density and smoking prevalence. Study results indicated that policies that restrict access to retail tobacco have the potential to reduce smoking [...]
An ASPiRE team that included Chris Baggett, Kurt Ribisl, and Shelley Golden looked at the relationship between tobacco retailer density and birth outcomes across the USA and predicted the potential impact of a tobacco retailer density cap. The study found higher rates of adverse birth outcomes in counties with higher retail density, providing support for [...]
An ASPiRE team that included Sarah Mills and Kurt Ribisl looked at the relationship between tobacco retailer density and birth outcomes across the USA and predicted the potential impact of a tobacco retailer density cap. The study found higher rates of adverse birth outcomes in counties with higher retail density, supporting regulation of tobacco retail density to [...]
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 [...]
An ASPiRE team that included Paul Delamater, Sarah Halvorson-Fried, Amanda Kong, and Kurt Ribisl examined the clustering of tobacco retailers near public schools. They found that tobacco retailers were closer to schools in rural areas, cities, and towns, and were more dense around schools in rural areas, cities, and suburbs compared to random locations. “This [...]
ASPiRE’s Page Dobbs co-authored a study of tweets following the Dec. 20, 2019 law immediately raising the minimum legal sales age of tobacco products to 21 years. Researchers examined more than 4,600 tweets in the three months leading up to the date of the law and found that most were neutral (46.2%) or negative (38.8%), [...]
The second issue of Tobacco Control focusing on the retail environment features an analysis by ASPiRE’s Lisa Henriksen. “A global proliferation of tobacco and nicotine products poses challenges for surveillance, prevention, cessation, regulation, and enforcement,” she writes. Two of the 17 studies in the e-issue evaluate tobacco sales bans, an endgame strategy that was unimaginable [...]
A new paper by ASPiRE’s Sarah Mills and Kurt Ribisl suggests ways tobacco-control leaders can advance equity beyond just talking about it. Their recommendations include action steps across five categories: surveillance, interventions, funding, accountability, and root causes. Policy interventions with a pro-equity impact on smoking and related disease should be prioritized, the authors say, and [...]
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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 [...]