Expenditure Analysis
Disclosed tobacco lobbying dollars across dozens of jurisdictions, 2021–2026: point-valued disclosures in most states, plus point-and-range filings in Florida, Tennessee and Texas. See Coverage for why some states aren’t in the dollar totals.
Total disclosed lobbying by year, across covered states
Every state with data, summed per year. This is a coverage total for the states we can read, not a national figure, and it blends exact dollars with the range states’ bands (bars show the range where one applies). The state count per year is shown under each bar. Do not read this as total U.S. tobacco lobbying.
How the covered states were read
Only sources with a stable public download or open-data API were scripted. Everything else was read from saved downloads or hand-entered from filings; the rest is queued.
: scripted sources
Minnesota principal-expenditure CSV, Washington PDC open-data API, California CAL-ACCESS Form 625, Colorado Socrata lobbyist income, Florida DoS aggregate-totals reports, and additional bulk/open-data pulls (e.g. New Jersey ELEC, Texas TEC, Wisconsin Eye on Lobbying). Mostly exact dollars except the range states, which report bands; check each state’s reporting basis and period coverage.
Downloaded and hand-entered sources
Alaska APOC contract-lobbyist fees, hand-entered with firm and lobbyist names (monthly fees annualized). Hawaii State Ethics per-lobbyist compensation CSVs. Connecticut Office of State Ethics client spending summaries — Connecticut reports biennially, so its two-year totals are split evenly across each term and a single Connecticut year is an allocation, not an observed annual figure.
Florida: point and range
DoS aggregate-totals reports, both branches, 2021 to 2026. Legislative figures are points (≥$50k exact, <$50k banded to the state convention); executive figures are reported ranges (min/max, with the midpoint as a helper only).
Point-valued tobacco lobbying disclosures by year
Point-valued totals (USD), stacked by company. Switch between states. Connecticut values are allocated from biennial reports, not observed annual totals; 2026 coverage is partial.
Recorded payments by recipient
Selected recipient records, ordered by recorded amount. Filter by state and recipient type before comparing; each row lists its own year coverage. Only states that name the payee next to the dollars can appear here. Amounts may include midpoint estimates of reported ranges. Firms and individuals are different units, so treat this as who-got-paid, not a precise league table.
| Firm or lobbyist | State | Tobacco client | Years | Recorded amount / estimate |
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2025 spending by company, across extracted states
Point-valued states show a single value; range states (Florida, Texas, Tennessee) show a min to max range. Reporting bases differ, so compare within a state rather than totaling across states.
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Coverage
Dollar figures cover jurisdictions represented in the current dataset. The categories below distinguish reviewed disclosure limits from compensation sources that have not been collected. Each uncovered jurisdiction links to its official source.
State-by-state coverage
Every jurisdiction and whether its disclosures are in the dollar totals above. Row counts describe automated extraction only; manually entered records are included in the totals but not in that count.
| State | Coverage | Automated extraction rows | Source / reason |
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