Retail-focused tobacco control: equity and endgame implications

This e-issue represents the journal’s second collection of articles focused on the tobacco retail environment, featuring studies from Canada, China, England, India, Israel, Pakistan, South Africa and the USA. With few exceptions, the first retail e-issue (published in 2015) focused primarily on cigarettes.1 This e-issue focuses primarily on non-cigarette tobacco products and Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), an indication that a global proliferation of tobacco and nicotine products poses challenges for surveillance, prevention, cessation, regulation and enforcement. Two decades ago, tobacco sales to minors were the predominant concern for retail research. This e-issue reflects a more comprehensive vision of retail-focused tobacco control, including research to inform or evaluate policies that restrict: (1) the marketing environment (product availability, promotion and price) and (2) the built environment (quantity, type and location of stores that sell tobacco and/or ENDS).2 Two of the 17 studies in the e-issue evaluate...
Source: Tobacco Control - Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research