Betsy Brock

Biographic Data

ID6063631
NAMEBetsy Brock
GIVEN NAMESBetsy
FAMILY NAMEBrock
SIGNATUREBROCK B
AFFILIATIONSMinnesota Medical Association
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Restricting Sales of Menthol Tobacco Products: Lessons Learned from Policy Passage and Implementation in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Duluth, Minnesota

    Open AccessLinda M Bosma, Joanne D’silva et al.ARTICLEHealth Equity2021

    Purpose: Commercial tobacco products have historically been target marketed to African American, Latinx, Asian American Pacific Islander, Indigenous, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) communities, as well as to youth. Menthol cigarettes increase smoking initiation and decrease smoking cessation, particularly among African Americans who smoke menthol cigarettes at higher rates than their white peers. Due to disproportionate to…

  • Local sales restrictions significantly reduce the availability of menthol tobacco: Findings from four Minnesota cities

    Open AccessJoanne D’silva, Joanne Moze et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2020

    Findings demonstrate high rates of compliance, indicating that sales restrictions can significantly reduce the availability of menthol tobacco. However, challenges to policy adherence underscore the need for continued monitoring and enforcement action

  • Countering tobacco industry tactics on the economic costs of restricting menthol tobacco

    Open AccessKristen Ackert, Betsy Brock et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2020

    Localities around the country have begun to restrict the sale of menthol tobacco products, which are easier to start, disproportionately used by young people and are more difficult to quit.1 In 2017, Minneapolis and Saint Paul City Councils overcame significant opposition by the tobacco industry to restrict the sale of menthol tobacco to adult-only tobacco and liquor stores. Prior to the cities’ actions, the tobacco industry warned of catastrophi…

  • Kool Mixx’ remix: How Al Capone cigarillos infiltrated Hip-Hop to promote cigarillos use among African-Americans

    W E Garner, Betsy Brock et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2019

    Al Capone is a brand of cigar products—little cigars, cigarillos and large cigars—manufactured and distributed in the USA by the Inter-Continental Cigar.1 2 Burger Sohne, which owns the Al Capone brand, has the stated goal of cultivating ‘smiling consumers, loyal to (its) brands, in every continent.’3 To that end, Inter-Continental Cigar relies heavily on online marketing through social media platforms to advertise, market and promote the Al Capo…

  • A tale of two cities: Exploring the retail impact of flavoured tobacco restrictions in the twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota

    Betsy Brock, Samantha C Carlson et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2018

    Policies that restrict the sale of flavoured tobacco to adult-only tobacco shops are associated with decreased availability of flavoured tobacco in convenience and grocery stores and increased proportion of tobacco inventory that is unflavoured

  • Effectiveness of Local Policy Efforts to Increase the Price of Cheap Cigars in Minnesota

    Betsy Brock, Samantha C Carlson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2017References: 4

    Objectives. To evaluate the effect of novel policies designed to increase cheap cigar prices by setting minimum prices at the local level. Methods. Between June 2013 and July 2015, we conducted assessments at tobacco retailers in Minnesota cities of Brooklyn Center (n = 26 in sample; n = 18 assessed before and after policy implementation), Saint Paul (n = 25 in sample; n = 14 assessed pre- and postpolicy), and Maplewood (n = 22 in sample; n = 18 …

  • Tobacco product prices before and after a statewide tobacco tax increase

    Betsy Brock, Kelvin Choi et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2015

    A large tobacco tax resulted in an average retail cigarette price exceeding the tax, suggesting the industry over-shifted the cigarette tax increase to consumers in Minnesota. The findings support the known public health benefit of tobacco tax increases while highlighting the need for additional information about how, or if, tobacco companies use price promotions to blunt the impact of tax increases

  • Higher Price, Fewer Packs: Evaluating a Tobacco Tax Increase With Cigarette Sales Data

    Michael S Amato, Raymond G Boyle et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2015References: 8

    In 2013, Minnesota increased cigarette taxes by $1.75, the largest US state increase since 2000. We obtained convenience store data of cigarette sales from January 2012 to December 2013 from the Nielsen Company. Analysis revealed significantly greater year-to-year reductions in numbers of packs purchased during posttax (−12.1%) than pretax (−3.2%; P The results provide contemporary evidence that, despite reduced prevalence and increased tobacco c…

  • Availability of snus and its sale to minors in a large Minnesota city: Table 1

    Kelvin Choi, Lindsey E A Fabian et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2013

    Prevalence of snus sales to minors appeared to be higher than that of cigarette sales to minors according to the 2011 Synar report. Futures studies are needed to determine whether tobacco retailers are more likely to sell snus than cigarettes to minors. Interventions such as public and retailer policies are needed to reduce the likelihood of tobacco retailers selling snus to minors

  • The relationship of neighborhood demographic characteristics to point-of-sale tobacco advertising and marketing

    Rachel Widome, Betsy Brock et al.ARTICLEEthnicity and Health2012Cited by: 2References: 1

    Tobacco advertising targets communities with various racial and ethnic profiles in different ways. Now that US Food and Drug Administration has the authority to regulate the marketing and sale of tobacco products, there is new opportunity to reduce the harmful impact of tobacco advertising