Table 4.

Percent reductions in tobacco retailer density disparities in Ohio following each licensing-law strategy. For each level of the demographic characteristic, we calculated the percent reductions in median retailer density per thousand people in each census tract before vs. after policy implementation.

Licensing-Law Strategy	African American	Hispanic	Poverty	Population under 18	Urban/Suburban/Rural
Capping-based, 1 per thousand*	L: 5.4 H: 1.9	L: 4.7 H: 3.0	L: 4.1 H: 5.2	L: 4.9 H: 3.9	U: 1.4 S: 1.5 R: 12.9
Capping-based, 0.7 per thousand*	L: 23.3 H: 21.5	L: 22.8 H: 25.8	L: 21.3 H: 25.4	L: 23.5 H: 21.3	U: 20.4 S: 13.4 R: 32.0
Declustering-based, 200 ft.*	L: 4.0 H: 3.8	L: 3.9 H: 4.6	L: 3.5 H: 4.5	L: 4.1 H: 3.5	U: 4.1 S: 3.6 R: 4.0
Declustering-based, 500 ft.*	L: 16.5 H: 19.2	L: 17.2 H: 20.5	L: 15.5 H: 19.2	L: 17.6 H: 16.5	U: 18.6 S: 14.4 R: 15.1
School-based, 500 ft. of a school	L: 2.1 H: 3.7	L: 2.4 H: 5.8	L: 1.7 H: 3.6	L: 2.3 H: 3.0	U: 3.1 S: 1.8 R: 1.7
School-based, 1000 ft. of a school	L: 9.2 H: 17.7	L: 11.2 H: 21.7	L: 8.3 H: 15.6	L: 10.9 H: 13.3	U: 14.3 S: 8.0 R: 7.7
Pharmacy-based	L: 7.6 H: 5.7	L: 7.1 H: 5.8	L: 8.4 H: 5.4	L: 7.7 H: 5.6	U: 7.5 S: 7.7 R: 5.7
Capping- and School-based*	L: 29.1 H: 33.3	L: 30.4 H: 39.8	L: 27.1 H: 35.7	L: 31.3 H: 30.9	U: 30.5 S: 19.9 R: 36.2
Pharmacy- and School-based	L: 15.7 H: 22.3	L: 17.2 H: 26.3	L: 15.6 H: 20.1	L: 17.5 H: 17.9	U: 20.3 S: 15.0 R: 12.8

^*Denotes a policy that was implemented at random (250 times) to explore the potential variation (statistical uncertainty) of carrying out this policy approach. The table provides the median value over the 250 randomizations.

Except for urban/suburban/rural, bold values indicate that the median percentage reductions for the low and high covariate values are significantly different. For “urban/suburban/rural”, bold values indicate when the median percentage reductions for suburban (S) or rural (R) tracts are significantly different from the median percentage reductions for the urban (U) tracts.