ANRF Smokefree Lists and Maps Quarterly Update
The ANR Foundation is pleased to announce our most recent quarterly update to the lists and maps of U.S. municipalities and states with smokefree laws now in effect. See all of our updated lists here.
With the elimination of the CDC Office on Smoking and Health, decades of scientific experience and institutional knowledge have been lost. Access to timely commercial tobacco policy surveillance data is now significantly compromised, and the fight against Big Tobacco has become harder. Read our commentary and statement.
Smoking and secondhand smoke remain leading causes of preventable death and disease, and we can help stop it with our work. However, the federal budget cuts have hit home. Very bluntly, we need your help, and we need it immediately.
Specifically, a stop-work order was issued against our CDC contract to provide information, and even some of our state contracts to advance smokefree protections are in serious jeopardy. We can’t and won’t stand down, but as a result, we must curtail some of our services, which may include a reduction in the number of lists and maps we update and distribute at no cost each quarter going forward.
ANR’s founders, supporters, donors, and people like you have always been instrumental in helping us secure seemingly unachievable goals, like eliminating smoking from airplanes, or making bars smokefree. People power fuels our continued fight for Casino Employees Against Smoking Effects (CEASE) in states like New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Kansas and more, and propels our efforts to tackle exposure to secondhand marijuana/cannabis smoke.
Early this year, ANRF updated several of our maps, including U.S. 100% Smokefree Laws in Non-Hospitality Workplaces AND Restaurants AND Bars, to reflect the change in California’s smokefree status. Learn more by visiting ANRF’s Frequently Asked Questions about California’s New Cannabis Law.California’s new law is a stark reminder that the tobacco, marijuana/cannabis, and casino industries continue to vigorously oppose our work. The tobacco industry continues to threaten progress made by attempting to weaken smokefree laws to include exemptions for cigar bars and preventing local communities from taking further action. In addition, on-site adult marijuana/cannabis use threatens the integrity of smokefree laws. Utilizing the ANR model ordinance ensures your policy will provide maximum protections and, of course, be included on our lists.
Institutions that have made it onto our Smokefree Colleges and Universities list often continue to strengthen their campus tobacco policies to keep up with trends in tobacco control! We want to recognize Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville MO for doing just that. NW Missouri’s latest policy iteration, effective on the first of this month, fully covers all tobacco products, including non-combustibles, as well as ESDs and hookahs.
As a reminder, ANR Foundation’s Smokefree Casino and Gaming Property Directory replaced our previously published List of Smokefree Gambling Facilities. The interactive directory can be sorted by state, Tribe, and company and includes a map for each state. We continue to be impressed with the leadership shown by Tribes and Tribal Casinos in requiring their facilities to be smokefree. You can find the directory by state here, with an overview map here.
The ANR Foundation has a bibliography of 712 studies, reports, and articles that utilize data from the U.S. Tobacco Control Laws Database©, whichyou can see here. Interested in a data run? Contact Maggie Hopkins to discuss the many options of standardized reports we have available, as well as the special multi-variate analyses that we can run based on your research and policy surveillance data needs. See our Laws Data page for more details. ANR Foundation policy surveillance data and resources were highlighted in the U.S. Surgeon General’s new report entitled “Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities – A Report of the Surgeon General.” Pages 551-552 feature several of our maps, created to show the progression of laws over time. The report also highlights the progress of smokefree environments as a “bright spot” and a reason to be hopeful for the future of commercial tobacco control.
Did you expect your new law to be included but don’t see it on our lists? That is either because the law is not yet in effect or because the law didn’t meet the smokefree list criteria for enclosed non-hospitality workplaces, restaurants, bars, and/or gambling venues to be 100% smokefree without exemptions. Some laws have been enacted so recently that our Policy Surveillance Team has not yet had a chance to order, analyze, and enter them into our Tobacco Control Laws Database. Other laws, despite all our searching, fly under our radar. We very much want these laws, so please contact us to check on any law you think we may be missing. Still have questions? Please contact Laura Walpert.
The lists and maps are updated on a quarterly basis. The next quarterly update will be in October 2025. Contact Maggie Hopkins, Director of Data Management and Analysis, if you have questions about our lists and maps.
Do you work in commercial tobacco control? Need new training tools? Get Professional Access! This new service allows public health students, professionals, and community-based partners access to resources and new tools, including recorded 2021-2023 virtual Clearing the Air® webinars and other selected virtual scientific presentations. Purchase Professional Access here. We also have free resources at no-smoke.org, and nonsmokersrights.org.
The fight for smokefree air continues, and we look forward to what we can accomplish together. People power is how we get this work done. Join us or Give a gift monthly to help us continue our work keeping track of tobacco laws and advocating for smokefree air. Your donations have never been more critical than at this time, whether through a one time or recurring gift. Please lend us your support.
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Contact Maggie Hopkins, Director of Data Management and Analysis, if you have questions about our lists and maps.
