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This dataset was developed to study trends in the adoption of state public health laws during 1980-2010. Specifically, the dataset covers annual trends in seatbelt laws, speed limits for passenger vehicles on rural interstates, minimum legal drinking ages, drunk driving laws, laws prohibiting the purchase of alcohol on Sundays, regulations for registering purchased kegs and/or prohibitions against selling kegs, beer taxes and total alcohol tax revenues, motorcycle and bicycle helmet laws, cigarette taxes, cigarette advertising bans, bans on workplace smoking, bans on smoking in restaurants and bars, and tobacco taxes (total revenue). The dataset contains information about these laws for each year between 1980 and 2010, inclusive. In addition, it contains variables that describe the social, economic, demographic, health care, political, and crime chacteristics of the states in each of these years.

本数据集旨在研究1980至2010年间美国各州公共卫生法律的推行趋势。具体而言，本数据集覆盖了以下各类政策的年度变化趋势：安全带使用法规、农村州际公路乘用车限速标准、法定最低饮酒年龄、酒驾相关法律、禁止周日购酒的法规、已购啤酒桶注册监管规定及/或禁止销售啤酒桶的禁令、啤酒税与酒精总税收收入、摩托车及自行车头盔佩戴法规、香烟税、香烟广告禁令、工作场所禁烟令、餐厅与酒吧禁烟令，以及烟草税（总税收收入）。本数据集收录了1980至2010年（含首尾年份）各州上述各类法律的相关信息。此外，数据集还包含可反映各对应年份各州社会、经济、人口、医疗、政治及犯罪特征的变量字段。