The tobacco industry spends over $9 billion dollars each year marketing cigarettes and smokeless tobacco in the United States. This episode dives into the ways in which the industry allocates this exorbitant amount of money to target communities of low socioeconomic status, and examines how the industry’s manipulative tactics impact disparities in tobacco use and tobacco-related morbidity and mortality. Listen below, on iTunes, or on LibSyn.

 

Transcript for the episode can be found here.

 

Recommended Resources:

Best Practices User Guides: Health Equity in Tobacco Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Health Equity and Point of Sale Tobacco Control Policy, CounterTobacco.Org

 

CounterTobacco.Org Sources:

Disparities in Point-of-Sale Advertising and Retailer Density, CounterTobacco.Org

Licensing, Zoning, and Retailer Density, CounterTobacco.Org

Restricting Tobacco Advertising, CounterTobacco.Org

 

Other Sources:

Eliminating Tobacco-Related Health Disparities: Directions for Future Research, American Journal of Public Health

Tobacco and Socioeconomic Status, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Cigarette Smoking and Tobacco Use Among People of Low Socioeconomic Status, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Economic Trends in Tobacco, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Price-Related Promotions for Tobacco Products: An Introduction to Key Terms & Concepts, Tobacco Control Legal Consortium