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. Congratulations to Athens/Clarke County, GA, and Ball, LA, for their new strong smokefree laws! And great news from Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, having approved a smokefree resolution for Kewadin Casino locations.
See all of our updated lists on no-smoke.org.
While we celebrate our progress, we must beware: the tobacco, marijuana/cannabis, and casino industries continue to oppose our work. The tobacco industry continues to threaten progress made by attempting to weaken smokefree laws with 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, land on our lists.
The academic year has begun! Again, we have both good news and bad news for our Smokefree Colleges and Universities list. The good news first: We have a brand-new Colleges List addition, with Manhattan University, a private university in Riverdale NY! Their comprehensive smokefree and tobacco-free policy also fully covers electronic smoking devices, hookah, and smoking/vaping marijuana. Further, Harris Stowe State University, an HBCU in St. Louis, MO, has upgraded to fully smokefree and tobacco-free (previously: smokefree only), and their comprehensive policy fully covers electronic smoking devices and hookah. The bad news: Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) issues persist; many of its member campuses have been on our list for quite a while, having qualified for the list via comprehensive campus-specific policies, and many of those listed member campuses themselves represent multiple sites. Unfortunately, we have learned that many member campuses have now reverted to the system policy, which contains vague, list-disqualifying, educational/clinical exemption language, and so we have had to remove those member campuses, including satellite locations, from the list. The member campus being removed this quarter is Gateway Community and Technical College (4 sites). We hope our partners in Kentucky will be inspired to remove the problematic language from the system policy, which hasn’t been updated since 2016.
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.
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Members of the Policy Surveillance Team will be at the ANR Foundation’s Clearing the Air® Institute in Philadelphia, PA Oct 14 – 17 and available to answer your questions about our data resources or to collaborate on possible research projects. We hope to see you there.
The ANR Foundation has a bibliography of 672 studies, reports, and articles that utilize data from the U.S. Tobacco Control Laws Database©, which you 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.
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 about any law you think we may be missing. Still have questions? Please contact Laura Walpert.
The lists are updated on a quarterly basis. The next quarterly update will be in January 2025.
We have resources! Check out no-smoke.org, the ANR Foundation website for smokefree materials, or visit nonsmokersrights.org, the ANR website for updated smokefree laws and campaign information.
Contact Maggie Hopkins, Director of Data Management and Analysis, if you have questions about our lists and maps.
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! Quick links to all things smokefree: @smokefree on LinkTree. Connect with us on social media: IG, FB, X, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
