Development of a computational modeling laboratory for examining tobacco control policies: Tobacco Town

Development of a computational modeling laboratory for examining tobacco control policies: Tobacco Town

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 single policy that effectively reduced density was restricting tobacco sales to tobacco specialty shops.