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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

The Impact of Recent Tobacco Regulations and COVID-19 Restrictions and Implications for Future E-Cigarette Retail: Perspectives from Vape and Vape-and-Smoke Shop Merchants.

Zongshuan Duan, Katelyn F Romm, Lisa Henriksen, Nina C Schleicher, Trent O Johnson, Theodore L Wagener, Steven Y Sussman, Barbara A Schillo, Jidong Huang, Carla J Berg

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. A systematic review investigating policy design and implementation of US state and local policy to restrict the sale of flavored tobacco products.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
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  2. Where Do E-cigarette Users Buy Their E-cigarette Products? Results From a Nationally Representative Sample of Adult E-cigarette Users in the United States.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
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  8. Changes in the Point-of-Sale Among Vape Shops in Six U.S. Metropolitan Areas Over Time, 2018-2021.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023
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  13. The Reshaping of the E-Cigarette Retail Environment: Its Evolution and Public Health Concerns.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Zongshuan DuanDepartment of Prevention and Community Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2598-1752
Katelyn F RommDepartment of Prevention and Community Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.
Lisa HenriksenStanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
Nina C SchleicherStanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
Trent O JohnsonStanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
Theodore L WagenerCenter for Tobacco Research, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Steven Y SussmanDepartment of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA.
Barbara A SchilloTruth Initiative Schroeder Institute, Washington, DC 20001, USA.
Jidong HuangDepartment of Health Policy & Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3425-9155
Carla J BergDepartment of Prevention and Community Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.

Funding

Regulatory Impact on Vape Shops and Young Adults' Use of ENDS - Diversity SupplementR01CA215155 · NCI · GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BERG, CARLA J · 2018 to 2022
$3.4M
Market Research to Predict Emerging Tobacco Product Use in Diverse Young AdultsR01CA179422 · NCI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI BERG, CARLA J · 2013 to 2017
$2.7M
Smoke-free Air Coalitions in Georgia and Armenia: A Community Randomized TrialR01TW010664 · FIC · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI BERG, CARLA J, KEGLER, MICHELLE C · 2017 to 2021
$1.5M
Emory-Georgia Clean Air Research & Education (CARE) ProgramD43ES030927 · NIEHS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI BERG, CARLA J, CAUDLE, WILLIAM MICHAEL · 2019 to 2025
$1.2M
Assessing IQOS Marketing Influences and Consumer Behavior in Israel: Implications for the USR01CA239178 · NCI · GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BERG, CARLA J, LEVINE, HAGAI · 2019 to 2021
$1.2M
Recreational Marijuana Marketing and Young Adult Consumer BehaviorR56DA051232 · NIDA · GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BERG, CARLA J, CAVAZOS-REHG, PATRICIA A · 2021 to 2021
$694k
FIC NIH HHS R01 TW010664NCI NIH HHS R01 CA179422NCI NIH HHS R01 CA215155NCI NIH HHS R01 CA239178NIDA NIH HHS R56 DA051232NIEHS NIH HHS D43 ES030927
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTobacco regulations and COVID-19 state orders have substantially impacted vape retail. This study assessed vape retailers' perspectives regarding regulations and future retail activities.

methodsIn March-June 2021, 60 owners or managers of vape or vape-and-smoke shops (

resultsMost participants had websites (65.0%), used social media for promotion (71.7%), offered curbside pickup (51.7%), and sold CBD (e.g., 73.3% vape products, 80.0% other); many also sold other tobacco products. Knowledge varied regarding state/local policies in effect before federal policies. Participants perceived tobacco regulations and COVID-19 orders as somewhat easy to understand/implement and perceived noncompliance consequences as somewhat severe. Qualitative themes indicated concerns regarding regulations' negative impacts (e.g., sales/customer loss, customers switching to combustibles), insufficient evidence base, challenges explaining regulations to customers, and concerns about future regulatory actions.

conclusionsSurveillance of tobacco retail, consumer behavior, and regulatory compliance is warranted as policies regarding nicotine and cannabis continue evolving.

Indexed as

COVID-19Electronic Nicotine Delivery SystemsTobacco ProductsVapingCommerceHumansSmokeSmokeCOVID-19 ordersflavored e-cigarette banretail activitiesTobacco 21tobacco regulationsvape-and-smoke shopvape shop

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PMID35409539
PMCPMC8997836

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