The availability and distribution of vaping retailers across Ontario neighbourhoods, 2016-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To characterize the distribution of vaping retailers and examine the association between neighbourhood income and vaping retailer availability in Ontario prior to and after regulatory changes to the vaping market in 2018.

Methods

We quantified vaping access by number of vaping retailers for 19,964 dissemination areas (DAs) in Ontario and percentage of schools near a vaping retailer. We used mixed-effects regression models to examine the associations between vaping access and neighbourhood income in 2018 and 2019.

Results

Between 2016 and 2019, the number of vaping retailers in Ontario increased by 22.6% (5999 to 7355), despite a mild drop from 2016 to 2018. In 2019, 59.7% of urban neighbourhoods had one or more vaping retailers within 1000 m of their geogra

SUBMITTER: Seale E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10283501 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature