ArticleTobacco control2018
Neighbourhood tobacco supply and individual maternal smoking during pregnancy: a fixed-effects longitudinal analysis using routine data.
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- Longitudinal analysis of geographical inequalities in retail density of tobacco and nicotine vapour products in Scotland, 2020-2024.Preventive medicine reports · 2026Article
- Tobacco retailer density and its association with birth outcomes in the USA: 2000-2016.Tobacco control · 2025Article
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- Tobacco retailer density and rurality across four US states: California, Connecticut, North Carolina, and Ohio.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025Article
- "Availability is the poor cousin of marketing and pricing": qualitative study of stakeholders' views on policy priorities around tobacco and alcohol availability.Drugs (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- A statewide study of disparities in local policies and tobacco, vape, and cannabis retail environments.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Variations in Tobacco Retailer Type Across Community Characteristics: Place Matters.Preventing chronic disease · 2022Article
- Spatial analysis of tobacco outlet density on secondhand smoke exposure and asthma health among children in Baltimore City.Tobacco control · 2022Article
- Reducing Exposure to Tobacco Retailers with Residential Zoning Policy: Insights from a Geospatial Analysis of Wilmington, Delaware.Cities & health · 2022Article
- Simulating the density reduction and equity impact of potential tobacco retail control policies.Tobacco control · 2021Article
- Boosting the Tobacco Control Vaccine: recognizing the role of the retail environment in addressing tobacco use and disparities.Tobacco control · 2021Article
- Operationalizing the Population Health Framework: Clinical Characteristics, Social Context, and the Built Environment.Population health management · 2021Article
- Characterizing the spatial relationship between smoking status and tobacco retail exposure: Implications for policy development and evaluation.Health & place · 2021Article
- Changing behaviour: an essential component of tackling health inequalities.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2021Article
- County-level associations between tobacco retailer density and smoking prevalence in the USA, 2012.Preventive medicine reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundTobacco policy is increasingly focusing on the 'tobacco endgame' which commits to eradicating tobacco use (prevalence below 5%) within the next two decades. Strategies for achieving the endgame are likely to include addressing the supply of tobacco products, yet current evidence to support this approach is primarily cross-sectional.
methodsWe use longitudinal smoking information from routine maternity records of all women who gave birth in Scotland between 2000 and 2015. We linked this data to the residential density of retailers selling tobacco products and the neighbourhood prevalence of smoking during pregnancy. In the analysis, individual mothers act as their own controls because we compare changes in their smoking behaviour between pregnancies to changes in exposure to tobacco retailing that arises from residential movement between pregnancies.
resultsAdjusted ORs showed an increased risk of being a smoker associated with increases in exposure to retailer density (OR 1.67, 95% CI 1.27 to 2.20).
conclusionsThe results provide the strongest evidence to date of an association between the neighbourhood availability of tobacco and smoking, and the first to do so among pregnant women. These findings provide supportive evidence for interventions targeting the supply of tobacco products in achieving the endgame.
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