Tobacco lobby political tactics and outcomes in 12 state legislatures in the 1990s3-150
| State | Political tactic | Year | Industry success | |
| Florida | Offer “crippling” amendments causing withdrawal of effective tobacco control legislation including clean indoor air legislation in Florida and tobacco tax increase in Oregon | 1990 | No | |
| Oregon | 1997 | No | ||
| Florida | File lawsuits to overturn legislation that made it easier to sue tobacco industry for Medicaid (federal health care for the poor) funded illnesses due to tobacco use | 1994 | No | |
| California | Pass legislation to overturn previously enacted tobacco control legislation including tobacco related Medicaid legislation in Florida and smoke free bar legislation in California | 1998-99 | No | |
| Florida | 1995-97 | No | ||
| Florida | Pass legislation to nullify tobacco related Medicaid lawsuit filed by state | 1996-97 | No | |
| Arizona | Pass weak state legislation that also pre-empts stricter local tobacco control laws including pre-empting local tobacco sales restrictions and marketing laws in Arizona; local clean indoor air laws in New York; and local excise taxes in Oregon. | 1995 | No | |
| New York | 1995-96 | No | ||
| Oregon | 1997 | No | ||
| Arizona | Pass legislation weakening the implementation of effective and ongoing state tobacco control education programmes | 1996-97 | Yes | |
| Oregon | 1997 | No | ||
| Ohio | Sponsor pro-tobacco legislation, which diverts time and energy of public health forces towards defeating such legislation and not promoting tobacco control legislation | 1991-98 | No | |
| California | Pass legislation that diverts funding from initiative-created tobacco control educational efforts to other programmes | 1991-95 | Yes | |
| Oregon | 1997 | No | ||
| Massachusetts | 1993-95 | Yes | ||
| Arizona | Pass legislation capping funding for state anti-tobacco education programme below amounts approved by state initiative | 1995-97 | Yes | |
| California | Pass legislation delaying previously passed tobacco control legislation related to smoke free bars | 1996-98 | Yes (1996) No (1997-98) | |
| Washington | Request that legislative committee determine that administrative agency written rule regulating clean indoor air quality in public places not be adopted | 1994 | Yes | |
| Pennsylvania | Attach weak tobacco industry youth access bill to unrelated bill late in legislative session to pass it without drawing public attention | 1994 | No | |
↵3-150 The representative states are: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin.6-20