CDC STATE System: U.S. State Tobacco Retail Licensure Laws, 1995-2025

1995-2025 state-level legislative data on tobacco retail licensure, tracked by the CDC's State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System. The dataset includes requirements, restrictions, and penalties for selling tobacco products over-the-counter and through vending machines, with data reported quarterly. It is sourced from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and hosted on data.cdc.gov.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in tobacco retail policy adoption over time using `Year`, `Quarter`, `Enacted_Date`, and `MeasureDesc`.
• Map state-level regulatory differences for licensure requirements using `LocationDesc`, `ProvisionDesc`, and `ProvisionValue`.
• Model the relationship between policy provisions and geographic or temporal factors using `GeoLocation (state)`, `Effective_Date`, and `ProvisionGroupDesc`.

Strengths

• Covers a 30-year time range from 1995 to 2025.
• Includes detailed legislative provisions across all U.S. states and territories, as indicated by `LocationDesc` and `ProvisionDesc`.
• Data is updated quarterly, with the last recorded update on 2025-04-01.

Limitations

• Row count and total dataset size are 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

State-level legislative data collected and reported on a quarterly basis.

Time Range

1995-2025

Freshness

Last updated 2025-04-01 10:52:57; data is reported quarterly.

Geography

U.S. states and territories.