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Massachusetts Fact Sheet

Legacy has awarded over $7 million in grants to Massachusetts. Adult cigarette smoking in Massachusetts (14.9%) is lower than the national average (17.9%), while youth smoking rates are also below average. Massachusetts law prohibits smoking in public places and workplaces, sets the minimum tobacco purchase age at 18, requires signs stating the minimum age, and taxes cigarettes at $2.51 per pack.

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Massachusetts Fact Sheet

Legacy has awarded over $7 million in grants to Massachusetts. Adult cigarette smoking in Massachusetts (14.9%) is lower than the national average (17.9%), while youth smoking rates are also below average. Massachusetts law prohibits smoking in public places and workplaces, sets the minimum tobacco purchase age at 18, requires signs stating the minimum age, and taxes cigarettes at $2.51 per pack.

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STATE TOBACCO FACT SHEETS 2010

MASSACHUSETTS
Legacy in Massachusetts
• Legacy has awarded $7,199,304.15 in grants to projects in Massachusetts.

• Howard K. Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health at the U. S. Department of Health and
Human Services and Professor, Practice of Public Health at Harvard School of Public
Health, is a former member of Legacy’s Board of Directors.

Tobacco Usage

• In FY2010 Massachusetts spent $6.1 million on tobacco prevention, which is 6.7% of the
CDC Annual Spending Target.1

• The CDC estimates that 54.7% of adult smokers in Massachusetts tried to quit smoking in
2008.2

• Massachusetts received $829 million in tobacco settlement revenue in FY2010.3

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

ADULT CIGARETTE USE IN 2009 YOUTH CIGARETTE USE

17.9%

14.9%

Massachusetts7 National 8

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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 $2.51 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.

SOURCES
1
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, A Broken Promise to Our Children: The 1998 State Tobacco Settlement Eleven Years
Later. A Report on the States’ Allocation of the Tobacco Settlement Dollars, FY 2010, 2009
2
CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2008
3
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, A Broken Promise to Our Children: The 1998 State Tobacco Settlement Eleven Years
Later. A Report on the States’ Allocation of the Tobacco Settlement Dollars, FY 2010, 2009
4
American Lung Association, SLATI State Reports, 2010
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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