TY - JOUR T1 - Point-of-purchase tobacco access and advertisement in food stores JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 451 LP - 452 DO - 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050221 VL - 21 IS - 4 AU - Akiko Sugimoto Hosler AU - Jamie Rochelle Kammer Y1 - 2012/07/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/21/4/451.abstract N2 - A great majority of tobacco retailers are food stores, such as convenience stores,1 which provide underage youth easy access to tobacco products.2 Largely unregulated tobacco point-of-purchase advertisement in food stores can entice experimental smoking in adolescents,3 ,4 and expose young children to crafted tobacco brand images.5 Food stores could offer unique opportunities for policy-based tobacco control, as multiple government agencies regulate them through sanitary inspection, taxation, licensing (eg, lottery tickets sales) and nutrition assistance programmes.6 This study identifies food-store characteristics associated with point-of-purchase youth tobacco access and advertisement in order to formulate food-store-specific tobacco control strategies.All food stores in downtown Albany, New York, were identified through government lists of retailers and community canvassing. We defined a food store as a retail outlet that sold at least one of the following items: milk, bread, fruits or … ER -