Demographic disparities in the tobacco retail environment in Boston: a citywide spatial analysis

Dustin T Duncan1, Ichiro Kawachi1, Steven J Melly1

  • 1Dustin Duncan was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH in Boston, Massachusetts, and at the HSPH Lung Cancer Disparities Center in Boston. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health at New York University School of Medicine in New York City. Ichiro Kawachi is a Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH and at the HSPH Lung Cancer Disparities Center. Steven Melly is a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialist at the HSPH Department of Environmental Health. Jeffrey Blossom is a Senior GIS Specialist at the Harvard University Center for Geographic Analysis in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Glorian Sorensen is a Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH, at the HSPH Lung Cancer Disparities Center, and at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Center for Community-Based Research in Boston. David Williams is a Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH, at the HSPH Lung Cancer Disparities Center, and in the Departments of African and African American Studies, and Sociology at Harvard University in Cambridge.

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