Division of Chronic Disease Prevention, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Tob Control. 2018 Sep;27(5):592-595. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2017-053815. Epub 2017 Aug 10.
To examine the prevalence and patterns of tobacco purchases at low-income, urban corner stores.
Data on tobacco products and other purchases were collected through direct observation of customers' purchases (n=6369) at 120 urban corner stores in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from April to September 2012.
Overall 13% of corner store purchases included tobacco products. The majority (61%) of tobacco purchases did not include any other products, and 5.1% of all purchases from corner stores included a food or beverage and tobacco product. Approximately 24% of tobacco purchases were for lower-cost tobacco products such as cigars and cigarillos, and nearly 5% of tobacco purchases were an illegal purchase of a single, unpackaged tobacco product that is not intended for individual sale (ie, loosies). There was no difference in the average amount spent on food or beverages when purchased with (US$2.55, 95% CI: 2.21 to 2.88) or without (US$2.55, 95% CI: 2.48 to 2.63) tobacco products.
In low-income, urban corner store settings, 87% of purchases did not include tobacco; most tobacco purchases did not include the sale of non-tobacco items and spending on non-tobacco items was similar whether or not tobacco was purchased. These findings can help inform retail-level tobacco sales decisions, such as voluntary discontinuation of tobacco products or future public health policies that target tobacco sales. The results challenge prevailing assumptions that tobacco sales are associated with sales of other products in corner stores, such as food and beverages.
研究目的在于调查城市街角杂货店中低收入群体购买烟草的普遍性和模式。
2012 年 4 月至 9 月，通过对宾夕法尼亚州费城 120 家城市街角商店的顾客购买行为（n=6369）进行直接观察，收集有关烟草产品和其他购买物品的数据。
总体而言，13%的街角商店购买行为包括烟草产品。大多数（61%）的烟草购买行为不包括任何其他产品，5.1%的所有街角商店购买行为包括食品或饮料和烟草产品。约 24%的烟草购买是为了购买雪茄和小雪茄等低价烟草产品，近 5%的烟草购买是非法购买单个、未包装的烟草产品，这些产品不是为单独销售而设计的（即散烟）。在购买食品或饮料时，是否同时购买烟草产品对食品或饮料的平均支出没有影响（含烟草产品时为 2.55 美元，95%置信区间：2.21 美元至 2.88 美元；不含烟草产品时为 2.55 美元，95%置信区间：2.48 美元至 2.63 美元）。
在低收入的城市街角商店环境中，87%的购买行为不包括烟草；大多数烟草购买行为不包括非烟草产品的销售，无论是否购买烟草产品，非烟草产品的支出都相似。这些发现有助于为零售层面的烟草销售决策提供信息，例如自愿停止销售烟草产品或未来针对烟草销售的公共卫生政策。这些结果挑战了普遍存在的假设，即烟草销售与街角商店的其他产品销售有关，如食品和饮料。
