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  1. News Article News Article Research & Resources

    3 states pass tobacco 21 laws in 3 weeks

    In the span of under 21 days this summer, New Jersey, Maine and Oregon raised the legal minimum age to purchase tobacco from 18 to 21.

  2. News Article News Article Research & Resources

    Cities and states target tobacco sales with new rules in 2016

    States and cities across the country will make it harder to sell tobacco products to young people in 2016, increasing the legal minimum age to purchase cigar

  3. News Article News Article Research & Resources

    California state pension fund extends tobacco divestment

    CalPERS voted this week to continue its ban on investing in tobacco companies and to sell off its last $550 million worth of tobacco-related investments.

  4. News Article News Article Research & Resources

    CDC report shows states need to pick up pace of tobacco control

    Passage of state-wide comprehensive smoke-free laws and increases in cigarette taxes has stalled in recent years, threatening to undermine public health

  5. Report Report Research & Resources

    Measuring support for tobacco control policies in states with deadly smoking disparities

    How do residents who live in a collection of states with smoking rivaling the most cigarette-dependent countries on earth feel about laws to curb tobacco use

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    Tobacco use in these 12 U.S. states is on par with a number of developing countries. Why?

    Tobacco use in a group of 12 states looks more like some of the most tobacco-affected countries in the world than the rest of the U.S.

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    States to spend less than 2 percent of tobacco revenue on cessation and prevention

    States will bring in $26.6 billion in payouts from the 1998 tobacco settlement and tobacco taxes, but will spend less than 2 percent of it on programs to cur

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    How local and state governments are taking on in-store tobacco promotions

    With most retailers and wholesalers receiving incentives to promote tobacco products, state and local governments are acting to reduce the impact of tobacco

  9. States can help finish the fight against tobacco by boosting funding for tobacco prevention

    The states are missing a golden opportunity to save millions of lives and billions of dollars in health care costs because they continue to shortchange prove

  10. Research Article Research Article Research & Resources

    Why smoking remains higher in these Southern and Midwestern states

    Truth Initiative’s latest “Tobacco Nation” report, the third report since 2017, analyzes geographic disparities in tobacco use.

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    Increasing funding for state tobacco prevention key to reducing high school vaping

    Increasing state tobacco control spending could significantly decrease high school student vaping and frequency of vaping among high school e-cigarette users

  12. Fact Sheet Fact Sheet Research & Resources

    2021 state fact sheets

    A look at the most recent tobacco use statistics in each state, including cigarette use, economics and state tobacco laws.