State Tobacco Settlement and Tax Revenues and Tobacco Control Funding Appropriations after the Master Settlement Agreement—United States, 1998–2010

May 25, 2012 / Vol. 61 / No. 20

From 1998 through 2010, states collected a combined total of $243.8 billion in settlement and cigarette excise tax revenues.
During this period, states have invested only $8.1 billion in state tobacco control programs.
CDC's Best Practices guide recommended state investments of $29.2 billion over that period.
The ratio of states' tobacco-related revenue to states' investments in tobacco control investment was 30–to–1 from 1998 through 2010 and 37–to–1 in 2010.

Total state and Federal investment in state tobacco control efforts increased from $262.3 million in 1998 to $820.9 million in 2002.
Since 2002, state investments in tobacco control have declined, with overall funding reaching $641.1 million in 2010.
The 2002 investment—the largest in U.S. history—were only 51% of the CDC's minimum Best Practices recommendation, while the 2010 investment were only 17.3.

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