Introduction This study quantifies the impacts of strengthening 2 tobacco control policies in
“Tobacco Nation,” a region of the United States (US) with persistently higher smoking rates …

Introduction Tobacco control programs and policies reduce tobacco use and prevent health
and economic harms. The majority of tobacco control programs and policies in the United …

More than a billion people use tobacco worldwide and an estimated 8 million die as a result.
1 In the 66th World Health Assembly, the World Health Organization (WHO) member states …

Introduction: High levels of tobacco retailer density in communities is associated with a
range of tobacco use behaviors and is a key structural driver of tobacco-related disparities …

Objective: To identify factors associated with the adoption of tobacco policy within 351
Massachusetts municipalities. Design: We obtained the 2019 Massachusetts municipality …

Rural areas of the United States have a higher smoking prevalence than urban areas.
However, no recent studies have rigorously examined potential changes in this disparity …

We examined the association between exposure to the California Tobacco Control Program
and tobacco-related behaviors and perceptions among adults of Mexican descent. Three …

Objectives. We assessed the impact of tobacco control on adult per capita cigarette
consumption in the United States from 1964 to 2011. Methods. We used logit regression to …

Background In the 1990s, California led the USA in state-level tobacco control strategies.
However, after 2000, California lost ground on cigarette taxes, although it maintained higher …

METHODS Spatial analysis was conducted at the zip code level by geocoding the states
and localities that adopted T21 ordinances from 2015 to 2019. A multi-level logistic …