Each month, GHEA aggregates the latest news and research related to place-based tobacco control and geographic health disparities. Below you will find the latest posts, updated regularly throughout the month.
(Last updated: July 3rd, 2024)
General Tobacco Control News and Research
- The Truth Initiative recently released an article detailing what oral nicotine pouches are and their associated health risks.
- The Public Health Law Center recently released a fact sheet describing policy approaches to counter tobacco product discounting schemes, such as coupons and value-added promotions.
- The Public Health Law Center updated Taxing E-Cigarette Products guide, offers tribal, state, and local governments’ insights into the rationales and strategies for various types of e-cigarette taxes.
- The CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health recently released a State-Level Tobacco Disparities Dashboard.
- The CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health, in collaboration with public health partners, released a Preventing Chronic Disease Collection, “From Data to Action: National, State & Local Efforts to End Menthol and Other Flavored Commercial Tobacco Product Use”.
- According to a recent study, higher levels of engagement with a chat-based smoking cessation intervention are associated with greater biochemically validated commercial tobacco abstinence at three and six months.
