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Therefore, such policies are entirely a product of state and local laws. In 1995, California was the first state to enact a statewide smoking ban for restaurants. [1] Throughout the early to mid-2000s, especially between 2004 and 2007, an increasing number of states enacted a statewide smoking ban of some kind.
State Year Code Notes California: 2005 CA LABOR CODE § 96(k) & 98.6 Not specific to tobacco use, covers all lawful activities but has been interpreted by the courts as not creating any new substantive rights Colorado: 1990 CO REV. STAT. ANN § 24-34-402.5 Not specific to tobacco use, covers all lawful activities Connecticut: 2003
The 2022 State of Tobacco Control California Local Grades report scores individual counties on an A-F scale based on various tobacco ... Central Coast cities have long way to go toward tobacco ...
Adult tobacco use by age (2013-2014 survey) [52] High school student cigarette use (1991–2007) As of 2022, a total of 11.2% of U.S. adults (11.7% of men and 10.8% of women) were regular smokers. [53] This was a considerable drop from 2005, when 23.9% of men and 18.1% of women were reported to be current smokers.
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Though the city-wide smoking ban remains intact, the vaping ban itself was lifted in 2016 due to a state law which was passed then, prohibiting e-cigarettes and vape products from being regulated in the same way as tobacco. In 2019 the city-wide vaping ban was reinstated, via a separate ordinance, by a unanimous vote from the City Council. [19 ...
California’s flavored tobacco ban left one large loophole: E-commerce.
Effective January 1, 2004, California bill AB846 bans smoking within 20 feet (6.1 m) of the entrance or operable window of a public building ("public building" means a building owned and occupied, or leased and occupied, by the state, a county, a city, a city and county, or a California Community College district.)