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ArticlePreventing chronic disease2023

Support for Policies to Prohibit the Sale of Menthol Cigarettes and All Tobacco Products Among Adults, 2021.

Maeh Al-Shawaf, Kya N Grooms, Margaret Mahoney, Natasha Buchanan Lunsford, Deirdre Lawrence Kittner

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Article in Preventing chronic disease, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Identifying key beliefs for anti-disinformation messaging for Black adults about proposed US bans on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
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  2. News coverage of the proposed menthol cigarette ban in the United States (2022-2024): a content analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
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  3. A Scoping Review of Theory-Based Tobacco Control Efforts for Sexual and Gender Minority Populations.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Maeh Al-ShawafCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Smoking and Health, Mailstop S107-7, Atlanta, GA 30341. Email: ksu5@cdc.gov.
Kya N GroomsOak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Margaret MahoneyCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Smoking and Health, Atlanta, Georgia.
Natasha Buchanan LunsfordCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Smoking and Health, Atlanta, Georgia.
Deirdre Lawrence KittnerCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Smoking and Health, Atlanta, Georgia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study assessed support for commercial tobacco retail policies among adults. Data came from SpringStyles 2021, a web panel survey of adults in the US aged 18 years or older (N = 6,455). Overall, 62.3% of adults supported a policy prohibiting the sale of menthol cigarettes, and 57.3% supported a policy prohibiting the sale of all tobacco products. A majority of adults supported tobacco retail policies aimed at preventing initiation, promoting quitting, and reducing tobacco-related disparities. These findings can help inform federal, state, and local efforts to prohibit the sale of tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes.

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Tobacco ProductsAdultCommerceHumansMentholPolicyMenthol

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PMID36729702
PMCPMC9923936

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