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