Trial reportJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2026
Removing Price Discounts From the Tobacco Retail Environment: Effects on College Students' Risk of Using Smokeless Tobacco, Little Cigars, and Electronic Nicotine Delivery Devices.
Trial report in Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- The effect of removing point-of-purchase price discounts on college students' future tobacco use susceptibility depends on price sensitivity.Translational behavioral medicine · 2026Article
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objectiveThe tobacco industry strives to keep product prices low by providing consumer-focused discounts (e.g., coupons) that can be applied at retail locations. Local communities have responded by prohibiting the distribution and/or redemption of coupons at retail locations, yet evidence that this policy diminishes product purchases and use intentions is lacking. The purpose of this experiment is to evaluate whether the elimination of price discounts from retail locations influences use intentions for smokeless tobacco, little cigars/cigarillos (LCCs), and electronic nicotine delivery devices (ENDS) in young adults.
methodParticipants were 298 college students recruited from the community. They participated in a simulated shopping task in the RAND StoreLab, a life-sized replica of a mid-sized convenience store. They were randomized into one of two conditions: price discounts present (store tobacco posters displayed price discount information) or price discounts absent (no price discount information displayed on posters). The dependent measure was postshopping intentions to use smokeless tobacco, LCCs, and ENDS.
resultsExposure to the price-discounts-absent condition led to a lower susceptibility of using smokeless tobacco compared with exposure to the price-discounts-present condition (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 0.48, 95% CI [0.23, 0.98]). Experimental condition was not related to LCC use susceptibility (aOR = 1.46, 95% CI [0.70, 3.03]) or to ENDS use susceptibility (aOR = 0.89, 95% CI [0.40, 1.95]).
conclusionsThese results support eliminating tobacco discounts from retail locations, at least for reducing college students' desire to use some tobacco products.
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