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Contracts may also undermine equity by targeting systematically marginalised populations and neighbourhoods with menthol advertising and products,17 36 as recent research finds that neighbourhoods with predominantly Black populations have greater odds of having menthol availability and price promotions than predominantly Hispanic and non-Hispanic white neighbourhoods.57 Policy implications Specific policy options to address contracts include banning them outright (ie, the Quebec, Canada, policy banning incentive programmes16), banning buydowns,58 implementing counteradvertising alongside buydowns,58 using clear language that bans advertising rather than promotion,58 banning all business-to-business and business-to-consumer advertising to undercut the loophole allowing wholesale advertising that many manufacturers take advantage of, and requiring all payments from manufacturers to retailers be made publicly available (eg, sunshine laws in the USA that shed light on government and corporate operations).5860 One study in our review assessed the incentive programme ban in Quebec41 but found no effects of the ban on tobacco pricing a year after enactment
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