Trends in the Number and Type of Tobacco Product Retailers, United States, 2000-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Tobacco product retailers provide access to tobacco products and exposure to tobacco marketing. Without a national tobacco retailer licensing system in the United States, there are no estimates of national trends in tobacco retailer numbers and store type over time.

Methods

We developed a protocol to identify likely tobacco retailers across the United States between 2000 and 2017 using industry codes and retailer names in the annual National Establishment Time Series (NETS) database. We calculated annual counts of tobacco retailers in seven store-type categories and annual numbers of tobacco retailers that opened and closed.

Results

We estimate that there were 317 492 tobacco product retailers in 2000; the number grew to 412 536 in 2009 before falling to

SUBMITTER: Golden SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8666124 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature