ANRF Smokefree Lists and Maps Replace
The ANR Basis is happy to announce our most up-to-date replace to the lists and maps of U.S. municipalities and states with smokefree legal guidelines now in impact. Congratulations to Savannah, GA, for having enacted a robust smokefree regulation efficient 15 years in the past this 12 months, and to El Paso, TX, for enacting their sturdy regulation 25 years in the past! Congratulations additionally to La Fourche Parish, LA, and Rock Port, MO, for enacting sturdy smokefree legal guidelines protecting workplaces, eating places, bars, and in La Fourche Parish’s case, gaming! See all of our up to date lists right here.
Because of the lack of a number of federal funding streams, we have now streamlined a few of our companies. We are actually offering a lowered variety of lists and maps which can be up to date and distributed for free of charge. In case you are in want of an up to date record on different coverage provisions or a specialised knowledge run, please tell us and we are able to give you a quote.
ANR’s founders, supporters, donors, and other people like you may have all the time been instrumental in serving to us safe seemingly unachievable objectives, from eliminating smoking from airplanes to securing smokefree hospitality venues. We proceed to work alongside staff and anxious residents to defend longstanding, broadly supported smokefree legal guidelines from rollbacks that purpose to renormalize indoor smoking.
The tobacco business and its allies proceed to threaten progress made by trying to weaken smokefree legal guidelines to incorporate exemptions for cigar bars, and on-site grownup marijuana/hashish use threatens the integrity of smokefree legal guidelines. Using the ANR mannequin ordinance ensures your coverage will present most protections and, in fact, be included on our lists.
Congrats to Valparaiso College and School of the Siskiyous, the latest additions to our Smokefree Faculties and Universities Checklist! We’re additionally thrilled that the Detroit Airport is now not contemplating an indoor cigar smoking lounge on the concourse.
Our record of U.S. Legal guidelines for Smokefree Multi-Unit Housing now has 108 municipalities that regulate smoking in personal models of multi-unit housing properties, and for the primary time, this record features a municipality outdoors of California–congratulations to Williamstown, MA!
ANR Basis’s Smokefree On line casino and Gaming Property Listing is an interactive listing that may be sorted by state, Tribe, and firm and features a map. A latest addition will likely be Joyful Valley On line casino in PA. You could find the listing by state right here, with an summary map right here. When you establish any adjustments in your space, please tell us.
The ANR Basis has a bibliography of 739 research, studies, and peer-reviewed journal articles that make the most of knowledge from the U.S. Tobacco Management Legal guidelines Database©, which you’ll be able to see right here. Latest research embody: Gordon, B.; Corelli, R.; Dove, M.; Reimold, A.; Yao, T.; Knox, J.; Hendrix, L.; Wilkerson, Okay.; Grand-Lejano, J.; Gibbs, T.; Brantley, S.; Anderson, C.; Tong, E., “Ending the sale of tobacco in California pharmacies: often requested questions,” Davis, CA: Tobacco Cessation Coverage Analysis Middle, April 3, 2026, and Patel, M.; Nighbor, T.; Westmaas, J.L.; Wang, S.; Gibson, L.; Orr-Souza, E.; Giaquinto, A.; Islami, F.; Nargis, N., “Tobacco use behaviors and associated disparities in 13 high-tobacco-burden U.S. states: an summary of proof,” American Journal of Preventive Drugs 70(2S): 108160, February 2026.
Interested by an information run? Contact Maggie Hopkins to debate the numerous choices of standardized studies we have now obtainable, in addition to the particular multi-variate analyses that we are able to run based mostly in your analysis and coverage surveillance knowledge wants. See our Legal guidelines Knowledge web page for extra particulars.
Did you count on your new regulation to be included however don’t see it on our lists? That’s both as a result of the regulation just isn’t but in impact or as a result of the regulation didn’t meet the smokefree record standards for enclosed non-hospitality workplaces, eating places, bars, and/or playing venues to be 100% smokefree with out exemptions. Some legal guidelines have been enacted so lately that our Coverage Surveillance Group has not but had an opportunity to order, analyze, and enter them into our Tobacco Management Legal guidelines Database. Different legal guidelines, regardless of all our looking out, fly below our radar. We very a lot need these legal guidelines, so please contact us to verify on any regulation you suppose we could also be lacking. Nonetheless have questions? Please contact Laura Walpert.
The lists and maps are sometimes up to date on a quarterly foundation, relying on funding. The following quarterly replace is deliberate for October 2026. Contact Maggie Hopkins, Director of Knowledge Administration and Evaluation, when you’ve got questions on our lists and maps.
Do you’re employed in business tobacco management? Want new coaching instruments or need a simple technique to practice new workers? Get Skilled Entry! This new service permits public well being college students, professionals, and community-based companions entry to sources and new instruments, together with new supplies and recordings of scientific periods from ANRF’s Marijuana and Smokefree Air Workplace Hours, recorded 2021-2023 digital Clearing the Air® webinars, and different chosen digital scientific displays. Buy Skilled Entry right here. We even have free sources at no-smoke.org, and nonsmokersrights.org. See our new tip sheet, Cigar Bar Arguments and Responses, to assist defend smokefree legal guidelines in opposition to cigar bar exemptions.
The battle for smokefree air continues, and we look ahead to what we are able to accomplish collectively. Individuals energy is how we get this work executed. Be a part of us or give a present month-to-month to assist us proceed our work preserving observe of tobacco legal guidelines and advocating for smokefree air. Your donations have by no means been extra crucial than at the moment, whether or not by means of a one-time or recurring present. We’d be thankful for your help.
Keep updated with the newest and biggest with these fast hyperlinks to all issues ANR/F smokefree, together with our month-to-month e-news: @smokefree on Linktree. Join with us on social media: IG, FB, and YouTube. Register at present to attend our subsequent workplace hour installment on cigar secondhand smoke and marijuana secondhand smoke.
