The Association Between Tobacco Outlet Density and Smoking Among Young People: A Systematic Methodological Review.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Evidence on the association between tobacco outlet density and proximity and smoking behavior among youth is inconsistent, which may be due to methodological problems in some studies. We assessed the association of outlet density or proximity with smoking behavior among young people while taking into account the methodological quality of studies.

Methods

MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Google Scholar were systematically searched for studies on the relationship between outlet density or proximity and smoking behavior among 12- to 25-year-olds, published between 1997 and 2017. Methodological quality of the included studies was evaluated independently by two reviewers.

Results

Twenty studies were included in the review. The quality assessment identified five primary sources of

SUBMITTER: Nuyts PAW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7822097 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature