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Researchers led by Rebecca Williams, PhD, MHS, reported teens were able to buy little cigars and cigarillos online as part of an experiment testing vendors’ age verification practices.

Three innovative and complementary research projects, done in partnership with UNC at Chapel Hill, Stanford University and Washington University in St. Louis, will examine the role of the tobacco retail environment in promoting tobacco use and causing tobacco-related illnesses.

Adam O. Goldstein, MD, MPH, is a UNC Lineberger member and professor in the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine.

In the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research, UNC Lineberger researcher Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, and Allison Lazard, PhD, compared how believable adults and adolescents found different warnings on addiction and tobacco.

Though many online cigarette sellers have moved overseas in the wake of federal regulation, online tobacco sales to minors continues. Williams found that nearly one in three minors were able to buy cigarettes online.

Rebecca Williams, MHS, PhD, has studied the online sales of cigarettes and other tobacco products for nearly two decades. Through her research, including a recent paper in Tobacco Control, she has uncovered the ways the industry has gotten around government oversight, especially as it applies to sales to minors.

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Study: Teens had access to little cigars, cigarillos online

Wall Street Journal: Researchers Say FDA Has Fallen Down on E-Cigarette Testing

Washington Post: FDA proposed new cigarette warnings are scary. That’s the point

Winston-Salem Journal: These toned-down — but still graphic — warning labels could appear on cigarette packages if the FDA gets its way

MarketWatch: FDA warns teens against ‘epidemic of addiction’ — amid revelation that Juul representatives visited high schools

NIH awards $11.6M grant to support study of retail tobacco policies across the U.S.

Warnings of tobacco addiction considered believable

Snuffing out illegal online tobacco sales to minors