Chicago has had its own indoor air quality ordinance since 1988. [92] The Chicago Clean Indoor Air Act was updated in 2014 to mention e-cigarettes, making it the first major U.S. city to legislate the use of e-cigarettes. [93] The Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners has discussed banning all forms of smoking in Chicago`s parks, beaches, playgrounds, and other facilities, but there is no municipal ordinance yet. Yes. Unless otherwise specified in the law, all businesses, facilities and organizations with employees must prohibit smoking and vaping indoors in accordance with the law. In July 2018, five states passed smoking bans in some places that don`t fit into the other categories: second-hand smoke causes lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke in non-smoking adults. In babies and children, it causes Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), low birth weight, respiratory and ear infections, and more severe asthma attacks. Second-hand smoke is a cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and causes nearly 50,000 deaths from heart disease, stroke and lung cancer among non-smoking adults each year in the United States As of July 2018, twelve states had not adopted a blanket national ban on smoking in the workplace, bars or restaurants: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming. Instead, the laws of most of these states (see each state`s list below for more information) require owners of certain places to designate smoking and non-smoking areas and put up warning signs. Yes. The law prohibits smoking and vaping in all private offices and anywhere in the building.
In 2017, New York State expanded Section 13-E of the Public Health Act, also known as the Clean Indoor Air Act (the Act). The law prohibits smoking and vaping in almost all indoor public and private workplaces, including restaurants and bars, to protect workers and the public from exposure to harmful second-hand tobacco smoke and vaping aerosols. Municipalities can continue to enact and enforce local laws regulating smoking and vaping. however, these regulations must be at least as strict as the law. Although Congress has not attempted to enact a national ban on smoking in the workplace, several federal regulations affect indoor smoking. Since April 1998, smoking has been prohibited on board on all commercial passenger flights in the United States or by U.S. air carriers. [7] This was long after Delta Air Lines banned smoking on all flights.
On August 9, 1997, President Bill Clinton issued Executive Order 13058, which prohibits smoking in all indoor spaces owned, leased, or leased by the federal executive branch, as well as in all outdoor areas under executive control near air intake ducts. [8] *These restrictions do not apply to smoking or vaping in a residence or within residential property lines near outdoor areas. Smoking bans are public guidelines, including criminal laws and health and safety regulations, that prohibit smoking tobacco in certain rooms. The U.S. Congress has not attempted to enact any national ban on smoking in workplaces and public places. Therefore, these policies are solely the product of national and local laws. In 1995, California became the first state to enact a nationwide ban on smoking in restaurants. [1] From the early to mid-2000s, particularly between 2004 and 2007, more and more states adopted a nationwide smoking ban. In July 2018, Alaska`s most recent nationwide smoking ban went into effect on July 18, 2018 and October 1, 2018. The Clean Indoor Air Act prohibits smoking and vaping in the following indoor areas: As explained in more detail in this list, smoking laws vary widely across the United States.
Some places in the U.S. generally don`t regulate smoking at all, some ban smoking in some areas and not in others, and some ban smoking almost everywhere, even outdoors (no state bans smoking in all public outdoor spaces, but some local jurisdictions do). As of October 1, 2021, according to the American Nonsmokers` Rights Foundation, 82.1% of Americans were living under a smoking ban in “workplaces and/or restaurants and/or bars by state, Commonwealth or local law”[2] and 62.3% live under a ban that covers all workplaces, restaurants and bars. [3] A smoking ban (state or local) has been enacted for all bars and restaurants in each of the 60 most populous cities in the United States, with the exception of these ten cities: Jacksonville, Memphis, Miami, Las Vegas, Nashville, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Tampa, Tulsa and Virginia Beach. [4] [5] No. Employers are prohibited by law from providing a smoking or vaping break room for employees. Businesses are not allowed to smoke or vape anywhere in the building. In Connecticut, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin, state law prevents local governments from adopting stricter smoking bans than the state, although some cities and counties in some of these states have adopted local versions of the state`s smoking ban. In the other 23 states with nationwide blanket smoking bans, some cities and counties have adopted stricter local smoking bans to varying degrees. California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah and Vermont ban the use of e-cigarettes indoors. The strictest smoking ban in the United States is in Calabasas, California, where smoking anywhere a non-smoker might congregate, including public sidewalks and apartment complexes, is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of at least $250.
[6] Local jurisdictions may regulate smoking more strictly than the state. .
