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Title: |
State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/FOLZFW |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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Date of Distribution: |
2011-08-18 |
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Bibliographic Citation: |
2011, "State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FOLZFW, Harvard Dataverse, V2 |
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Title: |
State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues |
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Subtitle: |
American Lung Association |
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Identification Number: |
doi:10.7910/DVN/FOLZFW |
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Authoring Entity: |
N/A |
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Producer: |
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Distributor: |
Harvard Dataverse |
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Date of Deposit: |
2011-08-18 |
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https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FOLZFW |
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Keywords: |
State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues, American Lung Association, Tobacco, smoking, lung cancer, smoking cessation, quitting smoking, quit smoking, smoke, secondhand smoke, smoking laws, tobacco laws, smoking policy, tobacco policy, smoking tax, smoking taxes, tobacco law, tobacco taxes, tobacco control, tobacco products, cigarette, cigarette laws, cigarette taxes, cigarette policy, cigarette vending, tobacco vending |
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The State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues tracks state tobacco control laws, such as restrictions on smoking in work and public places as well as laws on tobacco taxes. <p><b>Background</b></p> The State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues is run by the American Lung Association. It is the only comprehensive and up-to-date summary of tobacco control laws in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Users are able to: view a specific state’s tobacco control laws by clicking on the state map, compare states using the 2010 State of Tobacco Control report, and search the legislature related to smoke-free laws, policies, taxes. There is a variety of legislature related to tobacco control available including but not limited to information on smoking restrictions, tobacco taxes, tobacco control funding , youth access to tobacco products, minimum sales amounts for tobacco products, and tobacco products in vending machines. <p><b>User functionality </b></p> Users are able to choose which state they want information on by using the map tool. Users will be provided with an in-depth summary of laws related to tobacco products in the state. Each piece of legislature is summarized and the year and code is available. Users are also able to view a variety of data reports and fact sheets related to specific tobacco topics. <p><b>Data Notes </b></p> All data is presented in pdf and html formats. The website does not ind icate how often the data is updated. |
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U.S. state, U.S. National |
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<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a> |
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