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All other places covered by the state's smoking regulations, including bars and restaurants, are entirely exempt and may permit vaping if they choose. Local governments may regulate vaping more stringently than the state, so long as it's to have smoke-free laws that address the provision of vaping alongside all smoke-free areas.
A review of regulations in 40 U.S. states found that how a law defines e-cigarettes is critical, with some definitions allowing e-cigarettes to avoid smoke-free laws, taxation, and restrictions on sales and marketing. [297] Fewer policies have been created to restrict vaping indoors than with cigarette smoking. [298]
In Florida, state law preempts local governments from enacting stricter smoking bans than the state, though in Idaho, Indiana, and Louisiana, some cities and counties have enacted stricter local smoking bans to varying degrees, in some cases banning it in all enclosed workplaces. See individual state listings below for details.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed more than 580 bills passed by legislators including ending a 1980s nuclear moratorium and the $50.4 billion state budget Videoconferencing while driving and vaping in ...
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Aug. 23—After years of climbing rates of New Mexico teens taking up vaping, those numbers are finally going down. In the place of e-cigarettes, however, New Mexico Department of Health officials ...
In the United States, smoker protection laws are state statutes that prevent employers from discriminating against employees for using tobacco products. Currently twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have such laws. Although laws vary from state to state, employers are generally prohibited from either refusing to hire or firing an ...
Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act; Long title: To protect the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco products, to amend title 5, United States Code, to make certain modifications in the Thrift Savings Plan, the Civil Service Retirement System, and the Federal Employees’ Retirement System, and for other purposes.