Product | Study city | Average weekly total tobacco unit sales | Per cent change in average weekly sales pre-policy period compared with enforcement period | ||
Pre-policy period July 2015–July 2018 (160 weeks) | Effective period July–December 2018 (24 weeks) | Enforcement period January–December 2019 (52 weeks) | |||
Total tobacco | San Francisco | 113 191 | 112 657 | 84 970 | −25 |
San Jose | 202 071 | 198 894 | 185 679 | −8 | |
San Diego | 206 382 | 189 108 | 170 764 | −17 | |
Total cigarettes | San Francisco | 83 424 | 77 370 | 64 220 | −23 |
San Jose | 154 268 | 143 858 | 133 809 | −13 | |
San Diego | 158 081 | 138 299 | 122 731 | −22 | |
Total cigars | San Francisco | 15 496 | 16 488 | 7665 | −51 |
San Jose | 32 676 | 38 226 | 33 142 | 1 | |
San Diego | 28 404 | 28 229 | 24 720 | −13 | |
Total SLT | San Francisco | 9435 | 9367 | 5913 | −37 |
San Jose | 12 049 | 10 967 | 10 816 | −10 | |
San Diego | 15 402 | 14 619 | 14 852 | −4 | |
Total ENDS | San Francisco | 4690 | 8969 | 6772 | 44 |
San Jose | 2863 | 5641 | 7756 | 171 | |
San Diego | 4085 | 7552 | 8084 | 98 |
Bold values indicate significance (p<0.05). Stata ‘margins’ were used to estimate the predicted values and ‘contrasts’ were used to test for differences in predicted values.
Models controlled for the US$2 increase in the California cigarette excise tax (April 2017) and for seasonality in all models except ENDS.
*Full regression results for each of these outcomes and study cities are available in online supplemental table 2.
ENDS, electronic nicotine delivery systems; SLT, smokeless tobacco.