Each week we share some of the news that comes across our desk about upcoming legislation.. This week we have stories from Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri and Texas. Illinois – The proposal to raise the state tobacco from 18 to 21 advanced to the full chamber of the senate this week. The measure passed a committee hearing 6-3 via The Southern Illinoisan. Maryland – The Town Council of Mount Airy banned smoking in parks this […]
Each week we share some of the news that comes across our desk about upcoming local legislation.. This week we have stories from Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Utah Connecticut – Asonia has passed a new regulation that was set to ban all tobacco products and e-cigarettes. However, when two women pleaded with the Alderman they decided to omit e-cigarettes from the regulations. It is now illegal to smoke cigarettes, cigars, and use […]
The City Council in Cleveland, Ohio has created a work group that is making an effort to create new legislation to be submitted to the council on December 7, 2015. The new legislation may follow the example of the Cleveland Clinic which currently does now allow the hiring of people who smoke. The measure which one can call discrimination would exclude smokers from getting city jobs. In addition to this measure, the city is considering […]
This week the city council of Montpelier was addressed by a prevention specialist who is working toward a goal of making Montpelier’s parks and downtown smoke free. During the session Directors Ann Gilbert and Ginny Burley, the aforementioned specialists cited places that have similar bans such as Times Square in NYC and Boulder, Colorado. The measure has already been approved by the Parks Commission and city Manager William Fraser said he would write a suggested plan […]
The City Council of Santa Rosa, California will be holding a hearing this afternoon regarding the ability to smoke if you live in an apartment building or multi-family complex. The current draft of an ordinance would make it Illegal to smoke indoors if you do not live in a free-standing building. In August, 2014 the city enacted various smoking bans and announced support for the above measure. Santa Clara, CA is home to 120,000 residents […]
Right in the backyard of the Tobacconist University, and home to Little Taste of Cuba, Jorge Luis Armenteros has a battle on his hands as Princeton, New Jersey seeks to become the fourth town in the state to prohibit sales of tobacco products to anyone oder the age of 21. The local Board of Health set to introduce the ordinance on March 26 and if it passes it will go into effect on April 1. Violators […]
California is probably the most liberal state in the country and many of the smoking bans started here and moved their way east. The scariest of which is the growing trend of smoking bans on private property. Yesterday, in Santa Rosa, CA the City Council announced support of banning smoking inside condominiums, apartments and most public places. As the first public hearing came to a close on the issue, the council instructed the planning staff to move […]