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Washington spends 25.5% of the CDC's recommended amount on tobacco prevention programs. Adult and youth smoking rates in Washington are below the national averages at 14.9% and 11.7% respectively. Washington law prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces, restricts youth access to tobacco products, and has a cigarette excise tax of $2.025 per pack.

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Washington Fact Sheet

Washington spends 25.5% of the CDC's recommended amount on tobacco prevention programs. Adult and youth smoking rates in Washington are below the national averages at 14.9% and 11.7% respectively. Washington law prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces, restricts youth access to tobacco products, and has a cigarette excise tax of $2.025 per pack.

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STATE TOBACCO FACT SHEETS 2010

WASHINGTON
Legacy in Washington
• Legacy has awarded $4,285,729.89 in grants to projects in Washington.

• Current Governor and former Attorney General Christine Gregoire was the founding board
Chair of the Legacy Board of Directors.

Tobacco Usage

• In FY09 Washington spent $17.2 million on tobacco prevention, which is 25.5% of the CDC
Annual Spending Target.1

• The CDC estimates that 52.0% of adult smokers in Washington tried to quit smoking in
2008.2

• Washington received $569 million in tobacco settlement payments and taxes in FY09.3

• Washington has securitized all or parts of its Master Settlement Agreement dollars.4

ADULT CIGARETTE USE IN 2009 YOUTH CIGARETTE USE

17.9%
14.9%

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1724 Massachusetts Avenue, NW • Washington, DC 20036 • t 202-454-5555 • f 202-454-5599 • www.LegacyForHealth.org


State Tobacco Laws9

Excise Tax: There is a tax of $2.025 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 both minors and merchants who violate this law.

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

SOURCES
1
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, A Decade of Broken Promises: The 1998 State Tobacco Settlement Eleven Years Later,
History of Spending for State Tobacco Prevention Programs FY2010, 2009
2
CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2008
3
Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids, A Decade of Broken Promises: The 1998 State Settlement Eleven Years Later, State
Tobacco-Prevention Spending vs. State Tobacco Revenues, 2009
4
American Lung Association, SLATI State Reports, 2009
5
CDC, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, 2007
6
Washington State Healthy Youth Survey 2008: Grade 12, 2009
7
CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2009
8
CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2009
9
American Lung Association, SLATI State reports, 2009

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