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State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System
The STATE System is an interactive application that presents current and historical state-level data on tobacco use prevention and control.
The State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) system presents data on traditional Medicaid coverage of tobacco cessation treatments in 50 U.S. States and the District of Columbia. This dataset can be used to assess tobacco cessation policies in states and serves as a national clearinghouse information source and resource for the public.
The State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) system presents current and historical data on tobacco use-related laws in 50 U.S. States, the District of Columbia and territories including American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This dataset can be used to assess tobacco prevention and control activities in states and territories and serves as a national clearinghouse information source and resource for the public.
- Effective July 1, 2022, Tennessee will now allow cities and counties to regulate smoking and the use of vapor products in most age-restricted venues, such as bars.
- Although Tennessee passed the Non-Smoker Protection Act in 2007 prohibiting smoking in indoor areas of public places, such as private sector workplaces and restaurants, the state law did not prohibit smoking in bars and other age-restricted venues. Since Tennessee law prevented local governments from passing smoke-free laws that differed from state law, cities and counties were preempted from prohibiting smoking in bars and other age-restricted venues.
- The 2022 law now gives local governments the authority to enact smoke-free laws in bars and other age-restricted venues. The law defines an “age-restricted venue” as an establishment that affirmatively restricts access to its buildings or facilities at all times to persons who are twenty-one (21) years of age or older. However, the new law does not allow local governments to regulate smoking or the use of vapor products in retail tobacco stores, retail vapor product stores, or cigar bars.
The National Quitline Data Warehouse (NQDW) collects comprehensive information from all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Asian Smokers Quitline about the cessation services offered through their tobacco quitlines and the number and types of individuals accessing these resources. This dataset can be used to assess quitline activities and serves as a national resource for information on quitline use and cessation success rates.