Tobacco Use and Access in Areas with High Rates of Families Living in Poverty, City of Stockton, California

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Key points

Tobacco use and access to tobacco products disproportionately affects people in impoverished neighborhoods. Limiting the availability of tobacco retail licenses can help decrease accessibility and potentially bolster cessation and prevention efforts.

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This map displays the percentage of current smokers by census tract in the City of Stockton, California. It was overlaid with 2016 5-yr estimate poverty data. Tobacco retailer locations were also indicated to show spatial correlations between census tracts with higher percentages of current smokers and retailers that sell tobacco products.
Tobacco use and access in areas with high rates of families living in poverty, city of Stockton, California

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Source: California Healthy Places Index (October, 2018), from https://map.healthyplacesindex.org/.
*California Dept. of Tax and Fee Administration. (Sept. 2018). List of licensed tobacco retailers.
**US Census ACS 2016 5 Year Estimates – All Families Federal Poverty Level (FPL) estimate variable.

Retrieved current smoker data from the California Healthy Places Index. Tobacco retailer locations were retrieved from the California Board of Equalization. For poverty data, we used U.S. Census data, and classified the data using the natural breaks method with two classes.

Theresa Fournier, Epidemiologist, San Joaquin County Public Health Services
209-468-3881
Tfournier@sjcphs.org

Fournier, T.; Ramos, Y.; Rose, K., San Joaquin County Public Health Services (SJCPHS), Epidemiology. Accessed from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Chronic Disease Map Gallery.

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