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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.)
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
Two previous attempts to increase the state cigarette tax narrowly failed with Proposition 86 in 2006 and Proposition 29 in 2012. Proposition 56 was the first increase in the state cigarette tax since Proposition 10 in 1998. With the passage of Prop. 56, California's cigarette tax increased from $0.87 per pack to $2.87, increasing its rank from ...
Sacramento County joins the city of Sacramento, San Jose, South San Francisco, Half Moon Bay, unincorporated Los Angeles County and more that have enacted a flavored tobacco sales ban. California ...
Irish Government's Office of Tobacco Control; State Tobacco Laws from the American Cancer Society; Legacy Tobacco Documents Library from the University of California, San Francisco; Philip Morris USA Document Archive; Prevalence of smoking and information on smoking bans in an interactive world map Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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A detailed history of Proposition 99 and its success in reducing smoking is in the book Tobacco War. In its first 15 years (through 2004), the program reduced heart disease deaths and lung cancer incidence and reduced California health care costs by an estimated $86 billion. [2]
California’s flavored tobacco ban left one large loophole: E-commerce. Online searches for flavored tobacco products soared after California banned them in 2022 Skip to main content