Compliance Dashboards Now Available

We’re excited to share our new Dashboards page, which currently features an interactive dashboard that displays the data that resulted from our e-commerce compliance research among online vaping retailers in 2023.

Flavor Tobacco E-commerce Audit Dashboard

What it shows: This tool visualizes findings from our flavor tobacco e-commerce audit conducted in San Diego, California in 2023 where we purchased flavored vaping products from over 50 retailers that sent us products from Southern California and around the globe. Users can explore retailers by location and click through to see metrics such as whether they paid required taxes, complied with shipping disclosures, or used particular couriers for online orders. Users can also identify the number of visitors to the website or have a license to sell products in California.

These compliance results are generated from several peer-reviewed papers that are also available on our Publications page.

Why it’s useful: This data brings transparency to key compliance indicators across online sellers, including tax compliance, shipping practices, and label disclosures, allowing us to examine where noncompliance is concentrated and how different practices vary among sellers.

What’s next: We are currently in the midst of a California statewide audit of online vaping retailers. As results come in, we will update the dashboard to make the results available.

This dashboard is available on our Dashboards page.

In other news, we have recently rebranded to The E-commerce Lab, as we are now studying other substances such as alcohol. You will notice this change throughout our site.

For inquiries about these findings or access to our study data, please contact us at info@ecommercelab.health.