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: June 28, 2021)
Place-Based Tobacco Control News and Research
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- A study finds that retailers located in high poverty neighborhoods were less likely to check identification.
- A research study finds that convenience stores, more likely to be found in rural areas, are more likely to engage in marketing strategies to lure youth into trying smokeless tobacco.
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General Tobacco Control News and Research
- The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) recently released a new brief, “Opportunities and Strategies for Tobacco Prevention During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” which spotlights new findings on the relationship between tobacco use and COVID-19, opportunities for tobacco prevention during the pandemic, guidance for communicating risk and recommendations for engaging state health officials.
- CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) launched new web content related to smoking cessation medicines. The Learn About Quit Smoking Medicines web page helps users understand more about the seven FDA-approved medicines (pros, cons and potential side effects).
- June is National Pride Month. CDC OSH shares information and resources for quitting for the LGBTQ+ community.
- A research study by CDC and the FDA on the characteristics of e-cigarette use behaviors among U.S. youth find that although current e-cigarette use decreased during 2019 to 2020, overall prevalence, frequent use and flavored e-cigarette use remained high.
- An analysis on the nicotine content of nicotine pouch pockets found that the nicotine and pH levels in some nicotine pouches are similar to conventional tobacco products, such as moist snuff and snus, and that most of these pouch products are flavored.
- An investigative article in The BMJ explores how harm reduction advocates and the tobacco industry capitalized on the COVID-19 pandemic to promote nicotine.
- A research article examines new products that facilitate stealth vaping (i.e., the use of devices resembling everyday products to facilitate inconspicuous vaping).
- CDC has produced three new social media materials that highlight the harms of e-cigarette aerosol and the harms nicotine can cause the adolescent brain for their “Protecting Young People from E-cigarettes” campaign.
- A multi-national study on the awareness of filter ventilation and understanding of its effects found that awareness of filter ventilation is currently low, with few smokers realizing that their cigarettes are almost always
