Associations of Alcohol and Tobacco Retail Outlet Rates with Neighborhood Disadvantage.

ABSTRACT: Tobacco causes 29% of cancer-related deaths while alcohol causes 5.5% of cancer-related deaths. Reducing the consumption of these cancer-causing products is a special priority area for the National Cancer Institute. While many factors are linked to tobacco and alcohol use, the placement and density of retail outlets within neighborhoods may be one community-level risk factor contributing to greater use of these products. To elucidate associations between tobacco, alcohol, and tobacco and alcohol retail outlets (TRO, ARO, and TARO) and neighborhood disadvantage over a large geographic area, we employed a novel Bayesian index modeling approach to estimate a neighborhood disadvantage index (NDI) and its associations with rates of the three types of retailers across block groups in the state o

SUBMITTER: Wheeler DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8834944 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature