ArticleAmerican journal of public health2014
"A breath of fresh air worth spreading": media coverage of retailer abandonment of tobacco sales.
Article in American journal of public health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Changes in retail tobacco product sales and market share among retail payroll establishments in the U.S. Economic Census between 1997 and 2017.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
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- Merchant Attitudes Toward a Healthy Food Retailer Incentive Program in a Low-Income San Francisco Neighborhood.International quarterly of community health education · 2018Article
- A qualitative analysis of New Zealand retailers' responses to standardised packaging legislation and tobacco industry opposition.BMJ open · 2015Article
- "Tired of watching customers walk out the door because of the smoke": a content analysis of media coverage of voluntarily smokefree restaurants and bars.BMC public health · 2015Article
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- Twitter users' reaction to a chain pharmacy's decision to end tobacco sales.Tobacco induced diseases · 2015Article
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- Understanding community norms surrounding tobacco sales.PloS one · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectivesMedia play an important role in the diffusion of innovations by spreading knowledge of their relative advantages. We examined media coverage of retailers abandoning tobacco sales to explore whether this innovation might be further diffused by media accounts.
methodsWe searched online media databases (Lexis Nexis, Proquest, and Access World News) for articles published from 1995 to 2011, coding retrieved items through a collaborative process. We analyzed the volume, type, provenance, prominence, and content of coverage.
resultsWe found 429 local and national news items. Two retailers who were the first in their category to end tobacco sales received the most coverage and the majority of prominent coverage. News items cited positive potential impacts of the decision more often than negative potential impacts, and frequently referred to tobacco-caused disease, death, or addiction. Letters to the editor and editorials were overwhelmingly supportive.
conclusionsThe content of media coverage about retailers ending tobacco sales could facilitate broader diffusion of this policy innovation, contributing to the denormalization of tobacco and moving society closer to ending the tobacco epidemic. Media advocacy could increase and enhance such coverage.
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