The summative score was divided into quintiles to obtain wealth categories (lowest, lower, middle, higher, and highest), which are used as a proxy for wealth or socioeconomic status [25, 26]
New Research Point of Sale Tobacco Policy Evaluation Impact and equity of New York Citys tobacco retail reduction initiative, American Journal of Preventive Medicine In 2018, New York City implemented a policy capping the total number of tobacco retailers in each of the citys 59 community districts at 50% of the number of tobacco licenses in operation in 2017 (excluding pharmacies, since the city banned the sale of tobacco in pharmacies beginning in 2019)
74 In addition, products that are intended to treat tobacco dependence are not considered MRTPs if they have been approved as a drug or device
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Increased bacteria quantity Studies have shown increase in the number of bacteria in teeth that had been exposed to cigarette aerosol than those that had not