School-Centered Tobacco Retailer Exposure and Neighborhood Opportunity Across Urban and Rural Tennessee

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Examines the association between neighborhood opportunity and school-centered tobacco retailer exposure in Tennessee, including differences by rural or urban areas and Appalachian status. Features statistics and county-level maps with shadings showing school-centered tobacco retail exposure and tract-level quintiles of the Child Opportunity Index state percentile.

Sima Namin, Jacob Black, Jennifer Ferris, Robert E. Heidel

Journal of Appalachian Health, 8(2), 29-52

08/2026

Appalachia · Children and youth · Rural-urban differences · Schools · Statistics and data · Tobacco use · Tennessee