Updated fact sheet and YouTube Channel

And we updated our fact sheet to include all 41 smoke-free communities in Mississippi. 19.9% of the Mississippi population now lives in a community with a comprehensive smoke-free ordinance.


Also, visit our revamped YouTube Channel.

Latest Map of Smoke-free Mississippi Communities

Calhoun City is the latest Mississippi community to pass a comprehensive smoke-free ordinance. There are now 41 smoke-free communities in Mississippi.

Visit our update map.

Final Report - FY2010/11

We've posted a summary of our surveillance activities for the past fiscal year. 

Cigarette Consumption and Cigarette Revenue, 1955-2010

Check out our latest fact sheet

• Mississippi  increased the state cigarette tax from 18 cents to 68 cents on May 15, 2009.
• The data from tax records clearly demonstrates that the 2009 increase in the state cigarette tax has been followed by reduced consumption and increased revenue.
• Although the increased tax was only in effect for six and a half months during 2009, revenue from the tax increased by 41.2% and per capita consumption decreased by 4.4% from 2008 to 2009.
• Changes were more substantial in 2010, when revenue from the tax increased by 100.8% and per capita consumption decreased by 21.5% from 2009 to 2010.

Mississippi now has 40 communities with comprehensive smoke-free ordinances

We have just released our latest fact sheet on smoke-free Mississippi communities. We now have 40 communities that have passed comprehensive smoke-free ordinances, and 19.84% of our state's population lives in one of these 40 communities.

Changes to Mississippi Tobacco Data dot Org

We've updated the In The News section of our website to include links to our social media tools. The link to twitter tracks media coverage of tobacco control issues, the blog provides updates about tobacco data in Mississippi, and Google realtime lets you see up-to-the-second social updates, news articles and blog posts about tobacco control topics around the world.

Per Capita Consumption of Cigarettes

One of the CDC's Key Outcome Indicators for evaluating tobacco control programs is the per capita consumption of cigarettes. As can be seen from this chart, Mississippi's per capita consumption has been higher than that of the U.S. as a whole since 1991. The U.S. has experienced a steady decline since the early '80s, while the downward trend in Mississippi appears to have stalled twice over the past two decades. The good news is that there was a substantial drop from 2009 to 2010. Although it is too soon to determine if this a trend or simply a one-year blip, this decrease is exciting.


Note that the blue line represents Mississippi and the red line represents the U.S.