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    New Jersey has received over $32 million in grants from Legacy to fund tobacco prevention projects. In 2010, New Jersey spent $8.9 million on tobacco prevention, which was 7.4% of the recommended amount by the CDC. New Jersey's adult smoking rate was 15.8% in 2009, lower than the national average of 17.9%, while 17% of youth smoked in 2009. New Jersey has strong laws regulating tobacco, including a cigarette tax of $2.70 per pack, clean indoor air laws, youth access restrictions, and signs required where tobacco is sold.

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    New Jersey has received over $32 million in grants from Legacy to fund tobacco prevention projects. In 2010, New Jersey spent $8.9 million on tobacco prevention, which was 7.4% of the recommended amount by the CDC. New Jersey's adult smoking rate was 15.8% in 2009, lower than the national average of 17.9%, while 17% of youth smoked in 2009. New Jersey has strong laws regulating tobacco, including a cigarette tax of $2.70 per pack, clean indoor air laws, youth access restrictions, and signs required where tobacco is sold.

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    New Jersey has received over $32 million in grants from Legacy to fund tobacco prevention projects. In 2010, New Jersey spent $8.9 million on tobacco prevention, which was 7.4% of the recommended amount by the CDC. New Jersey's adult smoking rate was 15.8% in 2009, lower than the national average of 17.9%, while 17% of youth smoked in 2009. New Jersey has strong laws regulating tobacco, including a cigarette tax of $2.70 per pack, clean indoor air laws, youth access restrictions, and signs required where tobacco is sold.

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    STATE TOBACCO FACT SHEETS 2010

    NEW JERSEY
    Legacy in New Jersey
    • Legacy has awarded $32,999,720.00 in grants to projects in New Jersey.

    Tobacco Usage

    • In FY2010 New Jersey spent $8.9 million on tobacco prevention, which is 7.4% of the CDC
    Annual Spending Target.1

    • The CDC estimates that 54.8% of adult smokers in New Jersey tried to quit smoking in
    2008.2

    • New Jersey received $968 million in tobacco settlement revenue in FY2010.3

    • New Jersey has securitized all or parts of its Master Settlement Agreement (MSA)
    dollars.4

    ADULT CIGARETTE USE IN 2009 YOUTH CIGARETTE USE

    17.9%
    15.8%

    New Jersey7 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 $2.70 per pack on cigarettes, as of July 1, 2009.

    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 19, and penalties
    exist for merchants who violate this law.

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

    • The sale of bidis to minors is prohibited.

    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 Decade of Broken Promises: The 1998 State Settlement Ten Years Later, State
    Tobacco-Prevention Spending vs. State Tobacco Revenues, 2008
    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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