New Interactive Tobacco Map

I just got an e-mail from RWJ about this today, and I thought it was quite excellent - a new interactive tobacco map that shows a nationwide picture of tobacco policies in the U.S. It lets you see how things evolve over time, check out state policies and tax rates, etc.

The map is available here.

This is just a great example of health communication that can help the average public (in addition to researchers and policymakers) see the big picture about what's going on with a particular topic (in this case tobacco control policy) around the country. Very nicely done.