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"The American Public Health Association "(1) Opposes state and federal laws preempting local governments' ability and authority to enact their own more stringent restrictions on alcohol and tobacco availability; and (2) Supports local governments' home rule to sue their zoning, planning, and other local police powers to control alcohol and tobacco problems, including advertising and access."
American Public Health Association, Resolution 9410, 1994Utah
All workplaces, restaurants, taverns and private clubs in Utah are 100% smokefree. Restaurants went smokefree in January 1995. The Utah Indoor Clean Air Act was strengthened in 2006, which extended smokefree provisions to all non-hospitality workplaces and day-care centers on May 1, 2006, and to private clubs and taverns on January 1, 2009 after an unfortunately long phase-in period.
Read Utah's 100% smokefree law.
For more information about the law, visit Tobacco
Free Utah or call 1-877-220-3466.
To report a violation, call your local
health department.
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Utah state law still "supersedes any ordinance enacted by a governing body of a political subdivision that restricts smoking and that is not essentially identical to the provisions of this chapter." Read more about current tobacco-related legislation in Utah.
Current tobacco-related statistics are available from the Centers for Disease Control's Tobacco Control State Highlights, 2007.
Utah's 2010 Legislative Session: January 25 - March 19 (est.)
Legislative SummariesArchives
- 1/10/2010HB71—(e-cigarette restrictions)—Nicotine and Flavored Smokeless Tobacco Product Restrictions—Session Adjourned
- 3/1/2010HB82—(vehicles with minors)—Protection of Children Riding in Motor Vehicles—Session Adjourned
- 1/22/2010HB88—(e-cigarette restrictions)—Electronic Cigarette Restrictions—Signed by Governor
Action AlertsArchives
- 8/13/2010Preemption Watch Bill Tracking Summary
- 5/19/2010What's happening in the U.S. Territories and Commonwealths?
News SummariesArchives
- 2/5/2010State Preemption of Local Smoke-Free Laws in Government Work Sites, Private Work Sites, and Restaurants United States, 2005-2009
- 1/1/2009Smoking no longer allowed at Utah bars
- 12/15/2008Health departments send toolkits to help taverns, private clubs transition to smoke-free
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