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POLICY BRIEF article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Policy
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1501326
This article is part of the Research Topic Activities of Local Government Units in Promoting Health View all articles

Strengthening Tobacco Control Research: Key Factors Impacting Policy Outcomes and Health Equity

Provisionally accepted
Bukola Usidame Peters Bukola Usidame Peters 1*Natalie McArthur Natalie McArthur 1Andrea Titus Andrea Titus 2
  • 1 Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States
  • 2 Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, New York, United States

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    In this policy brief, we explore several potential drivers of heterogeneity in policy outcomes that can be examined in tobacco control policy evaluations, expanding the evidence base to contribute to continued, equitable progress in reducing tobacco-related health outcomes.• We discuss these factors in the context of a hypothetical evaluation of the impact of smoke-free laws on current smoking and quit attempts in the Tobacco Nation.• Despite a similar policy environment within the Tobacco Nation, there is variation in the strength of smoke-free law coverage across states.• This commentary considers how policy design and other contextual factors, including co-occurring policies, and differential impacts across subgroups, may influence policy-attributable outcomes across time and space.

    Keywords: Smoke-free, policy, Tobacco, Smoking, Tobacco Nation

    Received: 24 Sep 2024; Accepted: 25 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Peters, McArthur and Titus. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Bukola Usidame Peters, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States

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