STATE TOBACCO FACT SHEETS 2010

NEW YORK
Legacy in New York
• Legacy has awarded $95,401,386.48 in grants to projects in New York.

Tobacco Usage

• In FY2010 New York spent $57.0 million on tobacco prevention, which is 22.4% of the CDC
Best Practices recommended minimum.1

• The CDC estimates that 51.5% of adult smokers in New York tried to quit smoking in 2008.2

• New York received $2.13 billion in tobacco settlement payments and taxes in FY10.3

• New York has not securitized any of its Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) dollars.4

ADULT CIGARETTE USE IN 2009 YOUTH CIGARETTE USE

17.9% 17.9%

New York7 National 8

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State Tobacco Laws9

Excise Tax: There is a tax of $2.75 per pack on cigarettes.

Clean Indoor Air Ordinances

• Smoking is prohibited in all child care centers, government buildings, health facilities,
restaurants, bars, schools and private workplaces.

Youth Access Laws

• The minimum age requirement for the purchase of tobacco products is 18, and penalties
exist for merchants who violate this law.

• Establishments are required to post signs stating that sales to minors are prohibited.

• Only sales clerks are allowed access to tobacco products prior to sale.

• The sale of bidis is prohibited to minors in all establishments, and is prohibited to adults
except in tobacco stores.

SOURCES
1
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, A Decade of Broken Promise: The 1998 State Tobacco Settlement Eleven Years Later,
History of Spending for State Tobacco Prevention Programs FY2009-FY2010, 2009
2
CDC, Sustaining State Programs Data Highlights, 2006
3
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, A Broken Promise to Our Children: The 1998 State Settlement Nine Years Later, State
Tobacco Prevention-Spending vs. State Tobacco Revenues, 2007
4
American Lung Association, SLATI State Reports, 2008
5
CDC, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, 2009
6
CDC, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, 2009
7
CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2009
8
CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2009
9
American Lung Association, SLATI State reports, 2010

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