CDC STATE System: U.S. State Tobacco Tax Legislation, 1995-2025

CDC's STATE System provides state-level legislative data on tobacco tax policies from 1995 to 2025. The dataset tracks taxes on combustible and non-combustible tobacco products, reported quarterly. Data include provisions, effective dates, citations, and geographic identifiers for all U.S. states.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in tobacco tax rates using Year, Quarter, and ProvisionValue across all States.
• Map state-level tax policies for combustible vs. non-combustible products using LocationDesc, TopicDesc, and MeasureDesc.
• Model the enactment and effective dates of tax legislation using Enacted_Date and Effective_Date columns.
• Compare legislative citations and provisions across jurisdictions using Citation and ProvisionDesc.

Strengths

• Covers a 30-year time range from 1995 to 2025.
• Includes granular geographic data via LocationAbbr and GeoLocation fields.
• Tracks multiple tax types (combustible and non-combustible) as indicated by TopicDesc and MeasureDesc.
• Data is updated quarterly, with a last update timestamp of 2025-04-01 11:30:47.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Sample data is unavailable for previewing record-level details.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Legislative data collected and reported on a quarterly basis.

Time Range

1995-2025

Freshness

Updated quarterly; last updated 2025-04-01 11:30:47.

Geography

United States (all states and territories).