Resources

A study published in Tobacco Control evaluates compliance with a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) policy requiring stores on military bases to set tobacco prices comparable to stores in the surrounding community. The authors conducted store audits of 23 on-base and 50 off-base retailers in Texas. They found the median price of cigarettes and smokeless [...]

This analysis, published in the international journal Tobacco Control, examined and statistically combined the results of 27 studies of tobacco retail density, adult tobacco use, and health outcomes from 8 countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, New Zealand, Scotland, and the U.S. The authors found that lower tobacco retailer density was associated with a 2.6% [...]

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Authors of this paper developed a protocol to identify U.S. tobacco retailers between 2000 and 2017. Using industry codes and retailer names from a national database, they calculated annual counts of tobacco retailers, together with retailer openings and closings. They found a net increase of 12% over this period overall, from over 317,000 retailers in [...]

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This slide presentation was shared by Stephanie Andersen at ToPCon: a commercial tobacco prevention conference in May 2021. [...]

This slide presentation was shared by Todd Combs and Veronica Chaitan at ToPCon: a commercial tobacco prevention conference in May 2021. [...]

This slide presentation was shared by Amanda Kong and Ilana Raskind at ToPCon: a commercial tobacco prevention conference in May 2021. [...]

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 slide and audio presentation was presented at the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT) Annual Conference in 2021. [...]