US Tobacco Retailers
All 50 states, DC and US territories. Licence rolls in TX, CA, PA, NY, FL, MA, WA, WI, CO, MD, KS, CT, RI and Chicago. FDA compliance checks since October 2022 everywhere else · 264,510 locations

As of November 2026, 264,510 US stores carry US Tobacco.

Texas, California, Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Washington, Wisconsin, Colorado, Maryland, Kansas, Connecticut and Rhode Island, plus the City of Chicago. In those places the rows come from the state or city license roll. Every other state's rows come from FDA's tobacco compliance checks. The license_verified column says which is which.

Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Wisconsin, Kansas, Connecticut and Chicago are live or daily files, read on 2 November 2026. Massachusetts' lists are dated 7 October 2026 and California's 1 October 2026. Colorado's list is from September 2026. Maryland's file is dated 13 May 2026. Washington's list is dated 10 February 2026 and Rhode Island's 6 February 2026. FDA's files run to decisions made on 30 September 2026. The source_date column carries each row's date.

FDA contracts state inspectors to visit tobacco retailers, often with a buyer under 21. Each check ends in a decision: no violation, a warning letter, a fine or a no-sale order. FDA publishes every decision since 2010 with the store's name and address. A store comes in from FDA when it had a check between 1 October 2022 and 30 September 2026. We do not count a store as open from older records alone. FDA rarely publishes the visit date. The dates here are FDA's decision dates.

By address. A licensed store takes every FDA record at its street address, suite and ZIP. It also takes a record at the same house number and street in its ZIP. In the states with a full license roll, we leave out an FDA store that no roll lists. Most of these stores closed, moved or stopped selling tobacco after FDA's check. Some are on the roll under an address written another way. Florida, Maryland and Connecticut publish only part of their roll. There, FDA stores the roll does not list come in as FDA rows. The same goes for Illinois outside Chicago.

FDA checked about 9,900 stores in Georgia, 8,100 in New Jersey, 6,000 each in Michigan and Missouri, 5,300 in Virginia and 5,000 in Tennessee in the four years. Arizona, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and Wyoming issue no state retail license at all, so FDA's records are the only public list there. FDA does not check every store every year. A store it has not visited since October 2022 is not in these rows.

Yes. We merge a store's licenses into one row when they share a street address, suite and ZIP within one state. Texas issues separate cigarette and e-cigarette permits. Massachusetts issues separate cigarette, vapor and cigar licenses. A store holding several is one row with every license number. FDA's records for one address are one row too, even when FDA spelled the name several ways.

No. California's list leaves out licenses held by individuals: sole proprietors and married co-owners. State law bars the tax agency from releasing their names and addresses. California counts as a full roll here. Those stores are not filled in from FDA.

Connecticut's dealer list prints one address per license, and for many dealers it is the owner's mailing address. We leave out licenses at a PO box, outside Connecticut, or at an address several trade names share. FDA's Connecticut records fill in the stores.

Phone numbers come only from New York City's license file and Washington's list. No state and no FDA record publishes an email.

From each licensing agency and from FDA. The agencies are the Texas Comptroller, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance with New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, the Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Colorado and Kansas Departments of Revenue, Florida's Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, the Maryland Judiciary, the Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board, the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services, the Rhode Island Division of Taxation and the City of Chicago. FDA's records are its Tobacco Compliance Check Outcomes, the files FDA publishes for each fiscal year.