The U.S. Census Bureau doesn’t yet recognize vape shops as a category in its business classification code. So, how do we get proper data on them? Quartz turned to Yelp for a recent story, which shows that “tobacco shops” as a category have doubled over the past 15 years. Quartz reports that the data shows that the percentage of Americans who smoke has declined by a fifth.
Yelp has 10,591 stores identified as “vape shops” in its database. Not surprisingly, states in the western part of the United States have the most stores per capita. Nevada, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Florida and California are top states in the Yelp data. California also has one of the lowest smoking rates in the country.
Quarts reports that The Federal Trade Commission is going to start studying how e-cigarettes are marketed and sold, which hopefully will lead to better data regarding shops in our nation.
For the full story, visit http://qz.com/608469/what-yelp-data-tells-us-about-vaping/.
Yelp Data Shows Vape Shops Doubled Over 15 Years
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