CDC STATE System: U.S. State E-Cigarette Youth Access Laws, 1995-2025

CDC's STATE System provides quarterly state-level legislative data on e-cigarette youth access policies from 1995 to 2025. The data track restrictions, enforcement, and penalties related to retail and vending machine sales to youth. Columns include ProvisionDesc, LocationDesc, Effective_Date, YEAR, Quarter, and Citation.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in law enactment using YEAR, Quarter, and Effective_Date across 50 states.
• Map state-level policy differences using LocationDesc, ProvisionDesc, and ProvisionValue.
• Study the relationship between enforcement penalties (ProvisionAltValue) and geographic regions (GeoLocation).

Strengths

• Data spans a 30-year period from 1995 to 2025.
• Includes granular state-level geography via LocationDesc and GeoLocation columns.
• Tracks multiple policy dimensions like restrictions, enforcement, and penalties through ProvisionDesc and ProvisionAltValue.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System.

Collection Method

Reported on a quarterly basis from state-level legislative data.

Time Range

1995-2025

Freshness

Last updated 2025-04-01 11:46:39; freshness should be verified.

Geography

U.S. states