Please note: This website has recently moved from www.health.gov to odphp.health.gov. www.health.gov is now the official website of ODPHP’s parent organization, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH). Please update your bookmarks for easy access to all our resources. 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Scientific Evidence Brief: Tobacco Retail Density, Location, and Licensure

About this resource:

Non-Systematic Review

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Last Reviewed: April 2021

Workgroups: Tobacco Use Workgroup

This CDC brief summarizes the scientific evidence on flavored tobacco retail density, location, and licensure. The quantity and closeness of tobacco retailers can make it hard for people to quit. Scientific evidence supports licensing tobacco retailers, limiting retailer density, and limiting proximity to youth-oriented places. Retail-focused strategies should be a complement to — not replacement of — comprehensive tobacco prevention and control.

Read more about this resource

Objectives related to this resource (18)

Reduce current tobacco use in adults — TU‑01
Improving
Reduce current cigarette smoking in adults — TU‑02
LHI label
Improving
Reduce current tobacco use in adolescents — TU‑04
LHI label
Getting worse
Reduce current e-cigarette use in adolescents — TU‑05
Little or no detectable change
Reduce current cigarette smoking in adolescents — TU‑06
Target met or exceeded
Reduce current cigar smoking in adolescents — TU‑07
Improving
Reduce current use of flavored tobacco products in adolescents who use tobacco — TU‑09
Baseline only
Eliminate cigarette smoking initiation in adolescents and young adults — TU‑10
Improving
Increase past-year attempts to quit smoking in adults — TU‑11
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adults who get advice to quit smoking from a health care provider — TU‑12
Little or no detectable change
Increase use of smoking cessation counseling and medication in adults who smoke — TU‑13
Baseline only
Increase successful quit attempts in adults who smoke — TU‑14
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of people who don't smoke but are exposed to secondhand smoke — TU‑19
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of adolescents exposed to tobacco marketing — TU‑22
Little or no detectable change
Reduce current use of smokeless tobacco products among adolescents — TU‑08
Target met or exceeded
Reduce current cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoking in adults — TU‑03
Improving
Eliminate policies in states, territories, and DC that preempt local tobacco control policies — TU‑20
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the lung cancer death rate — C‑02
Improving

Suggested Citation

1.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2021). Summary of Scientific Evidence: Tobacco Retail Density, Location, and Licensure. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/evidence/pdfs/Tobacco-Retail-Density-Location-and-Licensure-508.pdf