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This map displays three Fiscal Year 2024-2028 Texas Tobacco and Prevention Control Coalitions (TPCC), Bexar County, Ellis County, and Johnson County, with the highest number of tobacco retailers within 1,000 feet (less than a quarter mile) from schools layered on top of 2020 U.S. Census Population data. Bexar County has the largest population and highest amount of tobacco retailers within 1,000 feet of schools, at 512 retailers within 1,000 feet of schools in Bexar County. In Johnson County, 28 tobacco retailers are within 1,000 feet of schools. In Ellis County, 36 tobacco retailers were within 1,000 feet of schools.
ArcGIS Pro Desktop; Adobe Acrobat
U.S. Census; Centers of Population, US Census Bureau, 2020; U.S Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) 2018-2022 5-year estimates, Table(s) B01001; Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Cigarette/Tobacco and E-Cigarette Active Retailers, 2024.; Texas Education Agency. Schools 2023 to 2024 Shapefile.
First, Texas active tobacco retailer locations were geocoded using the ArcGIS geoprocessing tool. Then, a 2023-2024 Texas school data shapefile was downloaded and added as a layer to the map. Texas Tobacco Prevention and Control Coalitions (TPCC) were selected and displayed using select by attribute. The TPCCs with the three highest number of tobacco retailers < 1,000 feet of a school were selected to be mapped (Bexar County, Ellis County, and Johnson County). To determine the number of tobacco retailers that were <1,000 feet of a school, select by location was utilized by choosing the intersecting tobacco retailers within a 1,000-foot search distance from a school location. This was replicated for the three counties. Within the layout section, inset maps were created by utilizing the extent indicator tool. Adobe Acrobat Pro was utilized to format and move several features of the map.
The Texas Tobacco Prevention and Control Program (TPCP) funds community coalitions to implement comprehensive tobacco control efforts using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention best practices and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration's Strategic Prevention. The purpose of the TPCCs is to prevent and reduce tobacco use in communities across Texas. This map will provide the TPCP with information regarding the proximity of tobacco retailers to schools in the TPCCs. With this information, the TPCP can help inform respective partners where intervention is needed to make their communities safer, healthier, tobacco free, and smokefree.
Source: https://www.dshs.texas.gov/tobacco/tobacco-prevention-and-control/community-coalitions
Delaney LaBrutta, Tobacco/Asthma Epidemiologist II
Texas Department of State Health Services
405-924-2770
Delaney.LaBrutta@dshs.texas.gov
Delaney LaBrutta, Tobacco/Asthma Epidemiologist II, Texas Department of State Health Services. Accessed from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Chronic Disease Map Gallery.