Type: Research Article

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 [...]

A study co-authored by ASPiRE’s Kurt Ribisl and Shyanika Rose, of the Center for Health Equity Transformation at the University of Kentucky, examined real-time tobacco marketing exposure among young adults from vulnerable and non-vulnerable communities in Washington, DC, which recently received funding to enforce its restrictions on the sale of flavored tobacco and menthol cigarettes. [...]

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In a special communication published in Tobacco Control, ASPiRE’s Kurt Ribisl and Shelley Golden propose strategies for making higher tobacco excise taxes more effective. Designing those taxes to raise prices frequently and substantially for all products, along with minimum price laws and bans on coupons, discounts and other promotions would reduce the persistence of lower-price products [...]