• Preventive medicine · Jan 2022

    Associations between disparities in tobacco retailer density and disparities in tobacco use.

    • Allison M Glasser, Nathaniel Onnen, Peter F Craigmile, Elli Schwartz, and Megan E Roberts.
    • College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Cunz Hall, 1841 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA. Electronic address: glasser.24@buckeyemail.osu.edu.
    • Prev Med. 2022 Jan 1; 154: 106910106910.

    AbstractResearch has separately established that there are disparities in tobacco use, that greater tobacco retailer density (TRD) is positively associated with tobacco use, and that TRD is greater in high poverty and high racial/ethnic minority neighborhoods. Connecting these topics, this study examined the association between disparities in TRD and disparities in the prevalence of tobacco use among adults and youth. We obtained Ohio data on tobacco use from two statewide adult surveys and two sub-state regional youth surveys (2017-2019). Licensed tobacco retailers in Ohio were geocoded within census tracts. Disparity in TRD within regions across the state was defined as the ratio of TRD in high vs. low poverty (and in high vs. low racial/ethnic minority) census tracts per region. Disparity in cigarette smoking (adults) and any tobacco use (youth) was defined as the ratio of use prevalence among socioeconomically disadvantaged vs. non-disadvantaged (and racial/ethnic minority vs. non-minority) individuals. We estimated Pearson correlation coefficients to assess the linear relationship between the TRD disparity ratios and tobacco use disparity ratios. Poverty-based and race/ethnicity-based TRD disparities were positively associated with smoking disparities among adults. Negative associations between TRD disparities and tobacco use disparities were found among youth. To our knowledge, this is the first analysis directly linking TRD disparities and tobacco use disparities. Different adult and youth findings may be due to trends by age and product preferences. For adults in particular, this analysis suggests a detrimental effect of the tobacco retail environment on disadvantaged populations.Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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