U.S. State Cigarette Minimum Price Laws for 2009

State-level legal data on cigarette minimum price laws in the United States for the year 2009. The dataset is sourced from the paperswithcode platform, but the original author and specific collection method are unknown. Its structure likely contains variables related to state identifiers, legal provisions, and pricing details.

Use Cases

• Analyzing correlations between state-level price laws and smoking rates (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Training a model to classify states by the stringency of their tobacco pricing regulations (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Creating a geospatial visualization of tobacco control policies across the U.S. in 2009 (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on the paperswithcode platform.
• Focuses on a specific policy area (cigarette pricing) for a defined year (2009).

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• License is listed as 'closed', which may restrict use.

Provenance

Source

paperswithcode

Time Range

2009

Geography

United States (state-level)