2023 Annual Report

With state hearings, a Global Gaming Expo (G2E) panel, and the beginnings of shareholder advocacy, 2023 was a year of firsts. The first smokefree hearings in New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania in more than a decade. The first opportunity to be part of a major gaming industry conference panel solely focused on smoking in casinos and going smokefree. Our first direct shareholder advocacy effort with casino companies. 2023 ended with ANRF at a tipping point in the smokefree movement. We continue the fight, but a look back shows the huge impact ANR Foundation made in the smokefree movement with worker centered voices.

At ANRF and ANR we believe the power of the people is greater than the people in power. ANR’s founders, supporters, donors, and members have always been instrumental in helping us secure seemingly unachievable goals, like getting smoking off of airplanes, or making bars and casinos smokefree, or tackling exposure to secondhand marijuana/cannabis smoke.

Smoking and secondhand smoke remain a number one cause of death and disease. ANR is committed to the fight—but we need your help.

People are still exposed to secondhand smoke in their apartments or other multi-unit housing, at casinos, in bars, and at other workplaces, and in states that have gaps in smokefree protections.

Thank you for your support and for taking the time to consider joining our Frequent Breather program or making a donation today!

About ANRF, sister organization to ANR, American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation (ANRF) is a 501c3 non-profit educational and advocacy group that has been working for nearly 50 years to protect everyone’s right to breathe nontoxic air in workplaces and public places, from offices and airplanes to restaurants, bars, and casinos. ANRF has continuously shined a light on the tobacco industry’s interference with sound and life-saving public health measures and successfully protected 61% of the population with local or statewide smokefree workplace, restaurant, and bar laws. ANRF aims to close gaps in smokefree protections for workers in all workplaces, including bars, music venues, casinos, and hotels. For more information, please visit https://no-smoke.org/. ANRF projects include https://smokefreecasinos.org/ and https://smokefreemusiccities.org/.

Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights (ANR) is a member-supported,501c4, non-profit advocacy group that has been working for over 45 years, since 1976, to protect everyone’s right to breathe nontoxic air in workplaces and public places, from offices and airplanes to restaurants, bars, and casinos. ANR has continuously shined a light on the tobacco industry’s interference with sound and life-saving public health measures and successfully protected 61% of the population with local or statewide smokefree workplace, restaurant, and bar laws. ANR aims to close gaps in smokefree protections for workers in all workplaces, including bars, music venues, casinos, and hotels. nonsmokersrights.org