Price, convenience, the buying experience, and other
motivations for purchasing tobacco and e-cigarettes online

Jensen, Jessica King; Rebentisch, Kayla; Tripp, Hollie; Merten, Julie Williams

doi:10.18332/tid/152138

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“…We then used linear panel regressions with month and statefixed effects to assess whether this coverage or inflation-adjusted tax collections changed over time. Additional models were run to determine the effect of expanding the March 2021 PACT Act amendments that banned the shipping of ENDS through the US Postal Service, which may have reduced consumers' reliance on online sales and increased state tax collections 9 .…”

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How Complete Are Tobacco Sales Data? Assessing the Comprehensiveness of Tobacco Product Retail Sales Data Through Comparisons to Excise Tax Collections

Liber

Ranganathan

Faraji

et al. 2023

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Introduction: Sales data analyses are increasingly used to guide tobacco regulatory science. However, such data do not cover specialist retailers like vape shops or tobacconists. Understanding the extent of the cigarette and electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) markets covered by sales data is critical to establishing such analyses' generalizability and potential biases. Methods: Sales data from Information Resources Incorporated (IRI) and Nielsen Retail Scanner data are used to conduct a tax gap analysis, comparing state tax collections based on cigarette and ENDS sales data to states' annual 2018-2020 cigarette tax collections and monthly ENDS and cigarette tax revenue data for January 2018 to October 2021. Cigarette analyses consider the 23 US states covered by both IRI and Nielsen. ENDS analyses consider the subset of those states with per unit ENDS taxes: Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, and Washington. Results: Across states covered by both sales datasets, IRI's mean cigarette sales coverage was 92.3% (95% CI 88.3-96.2%), while Nielsen's was 84.0% (95% CI 79.3-88.7%). Coverage rates for average ENDS sales were lower, ranging from 42.3% to 86.1% for IRI and 43.6% to 88.5% for Nielsen, but remained stable over time. Conclusions: IRI and Nielsen sales data capture almost the entire US cigarette market and, while coverage rates are lower, a substantial portion of the US market for ENDS as well. Coverage rates are relatively stable over time. Thus, with proper care to address shortcomings, sales data analyses can capture changes in the US market for these tobacco products.

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How Complete Are Tobacco Sales Data? Assessing the Comprehensiveness of Tobacco Product Retail Sales Data Through Comparisons to Excise Tax Collections

Liber

Ranganathan

Faraji

et al. 2023

Preprint

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How Complete Are Tobacco Sales Data? Assessing the Comprehensiveness of US Tobacco Product Retail Sales Data Through Comparisons to Excise Tax Collections

Liber,

Faraji,

Ranganathan

et al. 2023

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

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Introduction Sales data analyses are increasingly used to guide tobacco regulatory science. However, such data do not cover specialist retailers like vape shops or tobacconists. Understanding the extent of the cigarette and electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) markets covered by sales data is critical to establishing such analyses’ generalizability and potential biases. Methods Using retail sales data from Information Resources Incorporated (IRI) and Nielsen, we conduct tax gap analyses comparing states’ cigarette and ENDS tax revenue to tax collection estimates based on retail sales data. For the 23 US states in both retail sales datasets, cigarette tax gap analyses were conducted for each year from 2018 to 2020. Four (Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, and Washington) of those 23 states levied per-unit ENDS taxes and provided monthly tax revenue data covering January 2018 to October 2021, where we conducted monthly tax gap analyses for both cigarettes and ENDS. Results Across states covered by both sales datasets, annual mean cigarette sales in IRI and Nielsen account for 92.3% (95% CI = 88.3% to 96.2%) and 84.0% (95% CI = 79.3% to 88.7%) of state cigarette tax revenue, respectively. Monthly average coverage rates for ENDS sales were lower, ranging from 42.3% to 86.1% for IRI and 43.6% to 88.5% for Nielsen, but remained stable over time. Conclusions IRI and Nielsen sales data capture almost the entire US cigarette market and a substantial but lower portion of the US ENDS market. With proper care to address shortcomings, sales data analyses can capture changes in the US market for these tobacco products. Implications Policy evaluations and analyses using e-cigarette and cigarette sales data are often criticized because these data do not cover online sales or sales by specialty retailers like tobacconists. Cigarette sales data consistently cover nearly 90% of taxed sales, while e-cigarette sales data cover around 50% of taxed volumes. Retail sales data capture nearly all cigarette sales and a substantial portion of ENDS sales with relatively stable rates of coverage over time, supporting their continued use in tobacco surveillance and policy evaluation work.

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Neighbourhood inequities in the availability of retailers selling tobacco products: a systematic review

Kong,

Lee,

Halvorson-Fried

et al. 2024

Tob Control

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ObjectiveTo examine inequities in tobacco retailer availability by neighbourhood-level socioeconomic, racial/ethnic and same-sex couple composition.Data sourcesWe conducted a 10 November 2022 search of PubMed, PsycINFO, Global Health, LILACS, Embase, ABI/Inform, CINAHL, Business Source Complete, Web of Science and Scopus.Study selectionWe included records from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries that tested associations of area-level measures of tobacco retailer availability and neighbourhood-level sociodemographic characteristics. Two coders reviewed the full text of eligible records (n=58), including 41 records and 205 effect sizes for synthesis.Data extractionWe used dual independent screening of titles, abstracts and full texts. One author abstracted and a second author confirmed the study design, location, unit of analysis, sample size, retailer data source, availability measure, statistical approach, sociodemographic characteristic and unadjusted effect sizes.Data synthesisOf the 124 effect sizes related to socioeconomic inequities (60.5% of all effect sizes), 101 (81.5%) indicated evidence of inequities. Of 205 effect sizes, 69 (33.7%) tested associations between retailer availability and neighbourhood composition of racially and ethnically minoritised people, and 57/69 (82.6%) documented inequities. Tobacco availability was greater in neighbourhoods with more Black, Hispanic/Latine and Asian residents (82.8%, 90.3% and 40.0% of effect sizes, respectively). Two effect sizes found greater availability with more same-sex households.ConclusionsThere are stark inequities in tobacco retailer availability. Moving beyond documenting inequities to partnering with communities to design, implement, and evaluate interventions that reduce and eliminate inequities in retail availability is needed to promote an equitable retail environment.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42019124984.

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Price, convenience, the buying experience, and other motivations for purchasing tobacco and e-cigarettes online

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How Complete Are Tobacco Sales Data? Assessing the Comprehensiveness of Tobacco Product Retail Sales Data Through Comparisons to Excise Tax Collections

How Complete Are Tobacco Sales Data? Assessing the Comprehensiveness of Tobacco Product Retail Sales Data Through Comparisons to Excise Tax Collections

How Complete Are Tobacco Sales Data? Assessing the Comprehensiveness of US Tobacco Product Retail Sales Data Through Comparisons to Excise Tax Collections

Neighbourhood inequities in the availability of retailers selling tobacco products: a systematic review

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