Tobacco Agriculture: Acres harvested, production (lbs), cash receipts from tobacco production (i.e., value of production): http://www.nass.usda.gov [Quick Stats (Agricultural Statistics Data Base), U.S. and State Data, Choose U.S. & State – Crops and click Go, then select: (1) data type "Planted, Harvested, Yield, Production, Price (MYA), Value of Production;" (2) data item "Tobacco All (All Classes);" (3) year(s); (4) location].

• Have in effect a law prohibiting any manufacturer, retailer, or distributor of tobacco products from selling or distributing such products to any individual under the age of 18.
• Enforce such laws in a manner that can reasonably be expected to reduce the illegal sales of tobacco products to individuals under the age of 18.
• Conduct annual, random, unannounced inspections to ensure compliance with the law. These inspections are to be conducted in such a way as to provide a valid probability sample of the state's outlets accessible to youth.
• Develop a strategy and negotiate with SAMHSA a time frame for achieving an inspection failure rate of 20 percent or less of outlets accessible to youth.
• Submit an annual report describing in detail the state's activities to enforce its law including:
  
  • the overall success the state has achieved during the previous federal fiscal year (FFY) in reducing tobacco availability to youth.
  • methods used to identify outlets.
  • inspection procedures.
  • plans for enforcing the law in the coming FFY.

Office on Smoking and Health (OSH)
The funding data in the STATE System was compiled from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's OSH.

Click a link to display methodology information on that topic:

• Actual Funding
• CDC Best Practices Recommended Annual Investment
• CDC Best Practices Recommended Annual Investment as a Percent of Tobacco Tax and Tobacco Settlement Revenues

Based on an evaluation of the implementation of the 1999 recommended annual investments and the recommendation of an expert panel, the number of program categories was reduced from nine to five—State and Community Interventions, Health Communication Interventions, Cessation Interventions, Surveillance and Evaluation, and Administration and Management.

The STATE System presents Smoking-Attributable Mortality (SAM), age-adjusted SAM rates, Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL), and age-adjusted YPLL rates as average annual estimates for 2000-2004, 1997–2001, and 1990–1994; Smoking-Attributable Productivity losses as average annual estimates for 2000-2004 and 1997–2001 only; and Smoking-Attributable Expenditures (SAEs) for 2004, 1998, and 1993.

Office on Smoking and Health (OSH)
The legislative data in the STATE System were compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office on Smoking and Health (OSH).

Click any of the topics below for detailed information on the process of tracking enacted legislation, statutes, and cases for the STATE System.

STATE System Overview
Legislative and Statutory Information
Case Law Information
Development of Legislative Baseline Data
Legislative and Case Law Updates
Enacted/Effected Date Methodology

STATE System Overview
The legislative component of the State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System is an electronic data warehouse containing up-to-date and historical state-level data on tobacco use prevention and control policies. There are two types of information about the law contained in STATE: 1) legislative information and 2) case law information.

The citation for the legislation remains as a bill number or act number until the state incorporates the section into its code of laws and assigns it a title and section number. When the final statutory citation becomes available for a bill, usually six months to a year after a bill is passed, the citation in the STATE System is updated to reflect the code section. Statutory citations are reflected in standard legal citation format.

Some unique aspects of the legislative and statutory information in the STATE System are

• All ordinary legislation, such as House and Senate bills, passed by a state are included in the STATE System.
• Provisions that are predicated on the acceptance by a state agency of state appropriations (i.e. smoking is prohibited in jails if the state’s Department of Corrections accepts its annual appropriation) are not included in the STATE System.
• Executive orders are coded for inclusion only when they relate to the clean indoor air provisions captured by the STATE System.
• Ballot Measures, Initiatives, and Referendums are coded for inclusion in the STATE System.
• Administrative laws, such as rules and regulations passed by state agencies are not coded for inclusion in the STATE System.
• Attorney General opinions are not considered in determining how to code a particular legislative provision.

If a federal or state court decision is one of law, and not solely a decision of fact or an enforcement decision, and if the court decision relates to the interpretation or meaning of a clean indoor statute, the case is included in the STATE System. If a decision is solely an enforcement decision or a decision about the application of a state law to a particular situation, it is not included in the STATE System. Also, if a decision agrees with a plain meaning review of the statute or legislation, and that decision agrees with the prior coding of the legislation, the court decision will not be included in the STATE System. Court decisions related to preemption of local tobacco ordinances other than clean indoor air preemption, such as local youth access ordinances, are not included in the STATE System.

The STATE System contains the case citation, a brief summary of aspects of the case relevant to the STATE System, and a field that indicates if the court decision was in favor of preemption. Case law citations are provided in standard legal citation format.

The enacted and effective dates for a statutory provision are not included in the STATE System unless they can be verified through a review of the legislation or legislative documents. As a result of limited availability of bills or legislative documents enacted prior to 1995 in electronic format, enacted and/or effective dates of legislation passed prior to 1995 are only included in the STATE System if a copy of the bill is available or if the statute clearly indicted the enacted or effective dates for the relevant section.

For case law information, the holding date, the date the highest court to hear the matter officially rendered its decision, corresponds to and is entered in the STATE System as both the effective and enacted date.