TY - JOUR T1 - Retail-focused tobacco control: equity and endgame implications JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - e96 LP - e98 DO - 10.1136/tc-2022-057771 VL - 31 IS - e2 AU - Lisa Henriksen Y1 - 2022/12/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/31/e2/e96.abstract N2 - This e-issue represents the journal’s second collection of articles focused on the tobacco retail environment, featuring studies from Canada, China, England, India, Israel, Pakistan, South Africa and the USA. With few exceptions, the first retail e-issue (published in 2015) focused primarily on cigarettes.1 This e-issue focuses primarily on non-cigarette tobacco products and Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), an indication that a global proliferation of tobacco and nicotine products poses challenges for surveillance, prevention, cessation, regulation and enforcement.Two decades ago, tobacco sales to minors were the predominant concern for retail research. This e-issue reflects a more comprehensive vision of retail-focused tobacco control, including research to inform or evaluate policies that restrict: (1) the marketing environment (product availability, promotion and price) and (2) the built environment (quantity, type and location of stores that sell tobacco and/or ENDS).2 Two of the 17 studies in the e-issue evaluate tobacco sales bans, an endgame strategy that was unimaginable two decades ago.Equity is a dominant theme of this e-issue, with many studies reporting comparisons by income or socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, or rurality. Promoting equity-oriented research requires greater investment in and improved methods for sampling across priority populations defined by higher rates of tobacco use, including participants characterised by economic disadvantage, race and ethnicity, nativity, sex and gender minority, and rural residence. Nine of the 17 studies evaluate policy compliance or impact on use, but surprisingly none address policies to restrict the built environment. Systematic reviews of place-based disparities exist for tobacco retail marketing and price,3 4 but disparities in retail availability of tobacco and ENDS are ripe for synthesis, including studies in this e-issue.5–7 Licensing schemes are essential to develop and enforce retail reduction and other retail tobacco control policies.8 In the USA, no federal licence requirement … ER -