The CDC has release a press release on the  State and Local Comprehensive Smoke-Free Laws for Worksites, Restaurants, and Bars. You may also find highlights of the new laws here.

Continued efforts to promote implementation of statewide and local comprehensive smoke-free laws are critical to protect nonsmokers from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke in the places they live, work, and gather.

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Considerable progress has been made in the adoption of comprehensive smoke-free laws in indoor public places at the state and local level over the past two decades. In some states without statewide comprehensive smoke-free laws, substantive progress has been made adopting comprehensive smoke-free laws at the local level. However, statewide smoke-free progress has stalled in recent years as no states in the southeast have a statewide comprehensive smoke-free law.

 

Contact: CDC/Office on Smoking and Health

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