According to the anti-tobacco group Truth Initiative, new research refutes a May 2021 study showing that a ban on all flavored tobacco products in San Francisco was associated with smoking rates among high school students compared with school districts without flavor policies higher related.

The latest study, led by Jessica Liu of the Harvard School of Public Health, found that data from the May 2021 study was collected too early to draw meaningful conclusions.

San Francisco's ban on flavored tobacco went into effect in July 2018. However, enforcement did not begin until January 2019, according to the authors of the Harvard study.

The May 2021 study used data from the 2011-2019 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) to determine smoking rates among youth after the San Francisco flavor ban went into effect. However, the 2019 YRBSS data for San Francisco was collected between September 2018 and December 2018 before the flavor law was implemented.

Given the relatively low rate of compliance with flavored tobacco laws in the fall of 2018 (17% in December 2018) and the fact that few retailers enforce the restriction, the data collected at this time is not appropriate to assess flavored tobacco in the city, the authors say The impact on sales was limited, and the impact on actual access to flavored products didn’t really start to show until after YRBSS completed data collection in San Francisco.

Liu's team also studied Oakland, which collected survey data on youth tobacco use in the city after the ban on flavored tobacco began in January 2019. The researchers observed a decline in e-cigarette and cigarette use among high school youth in Oakland between 2017 and 2019.

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