A pictogram used to denote a vaping ban.
Laws regulating the use of electronic cigarettes, also known as "vaping", vary across the United States. Some states and municipalities prohibit vaping in every location where smoking is prohibited, while others contain more permissive laws or no laws at all regarding vaping.
Indoor bans
In August 2016, a World Health Organization (WHO) report recommended that e-cigarettes be banned in indoor areas or where smoking is prohibited. This is because of their potential for non-users to be exposed to chemicals and e-cigarette aerosol in indoor areas. Many local and state jurisdictions have recently begun enacting laws that prohibit e-cigarette usage everywhere that smoking is banned, although some state laws with comprehensive smoke-free laws will still allow for vaping to be permitted in bars and restaurants while prohibiting e-cigarettes in other indoor places. The only states that do not regulate indoor vaping at all, be it by state territory or on a local level, are in the states of Nebraska, Nevada, and Tennessee.
Alabama
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (11 total):
- Anniston, July 1, 2013, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Clay, January 6, 2012, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Creola, April 25, 2013, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Fultondale, September 1, 2011, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; also includes private clubs
- Gadsden, January 1, 2015, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Homewood, November 19, 2015, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Midfield, December 28, 2011, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Monroeville, March 19, 2013, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Mountain Brook, October 19, 2016, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Troy, June 25, 2013, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Vestavia Hills, August 26, 2013, banned in workplaces, bars, restaurants, hotels/motels, and within 20 feet (6.1 m) of entrances and exits
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Localities with vaping bans that do not include all bars and restaurants (3 total):
- Bessemer, November 1, 2012, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Foley, June 18, 2014, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Opelika, October 7, 2014, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
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Localities with vaping bans that do not include bars and restaurants (2 total):
- Daphne, August 18, 2014 banned in enclosed facilities owned, operated or leased by the city, including vehicles; vaping can also be prohibited where there is an owner, operator, manager, or other person having control of a place meeting certain criteria
- Madison, November 24, 2014, banned in all city buildings
Alaska
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Localities with vaping bans that include bars and restaurants (3 total):
- Dillingham, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Juneau, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Palmer, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
Arizona
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Localities in Arizona with vaping bans that include bars and restaurants (1 total):
- Tempe, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
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Localities in Arizona with vaping bans that do not include all bars and restaurants (1 total):
- Coconino County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
Arkansas
- No statewide vaping ban. Instead, vaping is generally prohibited on school property, although localities may choose to enact rules of their own that govern e-cigarette use, but so far, only Wooster has done so
California
- Statewide vaping ban As of June 2016, e-cigarettes are included in California's smoke free laws. E-cigarette use is prohibited in workplaces and many public spaces, including restaurants and bars. It is allowed wherever smoking is allowed. Communities can have stronger e-cigarette laws, e.g. covering parks, beaches, bus stops, outdoor worksites, and so on. Sale of e-cigarettes to persons under 21 is prohibited. In June 2019, San Francisco banned the sale of e-cigarettes in the city from early 2020. The ban was made effective by a citywide ordinance signed by Mayor London Breed in July 2019. The ban will be the first of its kind in the United States, since a similar one in Beverly Hills does not take effect until 2021.
Colorado
Statewide vaping ban. Localities may regulate vaping more stringently than the state.
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (16 total):
- Arvada, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; exempts partial theatrical productions and specialty vaping stores
- Boulder, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Breckenridge, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Brighton, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Edgewater, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Evans, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Fort Collins, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Frisco, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Golden, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Greeley, banned in bars and restaurants, any public access buildings including businesses, and within 50 feet of outdoor seating areas for events
- Greenwood Village, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Lafayette, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Lakewood, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Littleton, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Louisville, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Wheat Ridge, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
Connecticut
- Statewide vaping ban in restaurants, bars, government buildings, health care institutions, retail food stores, school buildings, child care facilities, elevators, college dormitories, and gambling facilities, since 2015.
Delaware
- Statewide vaping ban. Effective September 5, 2015, vaping is prohibited in all places that smoking is banned, which includes bars & restaurants, as signed into law by Governor Jack Markell. Localities may regulate vaping more stringently than the state.[1]
Florida
- In 2018, Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment to ban vaping in most indoor workplaces, effective July 2019.
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Localities with vaping bans that do not include all bars and restaurants (19 total):
- Alachua County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Archer, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Belleview, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Boca Raton, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Clay County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Miami-Dade County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Delray Beach, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Gainesville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Hawthorne, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- High Springs, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Lighthouse Point, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Marion County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Miami, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Newberry, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Orange Park, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Port Saint Lucie, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Port St. Joe, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Vero Beach, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Waldo, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
Georgia
- No statewide vaping ban. Instead, vaping is prohibited only on all campuses of University System of Georgia, with limited exceptions for educational purposes and research. Municipalities may regulate vaping more stringently than the state. Roswell bans vaping in all city parks
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (3 total):
- Chatham County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Pooler, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Savannah, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
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Localities with vaping bans that do not include all bars and restaurants (1 total):
- DeKalb County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, exempting bars and restaurants
Hawaii
- Statewide vaping ban. In April 2015 a bill passed that makes it no longer legal for vaping to be permitted in workplaces and other public places.[2] In June 2015 Hawaii raised the legal age to purchase traditional cigarettes and electronic cigarettes to 21.[3]
Idaho
- Ketchum, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
Illinois
- No statewide vaping ban. Instead, vaping is prohibited on all campuses of state-supported institutions of higher education, including buildings, grounds, parking lots, and vehicles owned by institutions. Enclosed research laboratories are exempt, as well as bars, restaurants, workplaces and all other indoor places where smoking is banned under the Illinois Clean Indoor Air Act. Localities may regulate vaping more stringently than the state.
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (13 total):
- Chicago, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants;[4] exempts vape shops.[5]
- Deerfield, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- DeKalb, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Elgin, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Elk Grove Village, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Evanston, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Naperville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- New Lenox, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Oak Park, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Ogle County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Schaumburg, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Skokie, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Wilmette, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
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Localities with vaping bans that do not include all bars and restaurants (2 total):
- Arlington Heights, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Wheaton, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
Indiana
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (1 total):
- Indianapolis, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
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Localities with vaping bans that do not include all bars and restaurants (1 total):
- Greenwood, banned in all enclosed workplaces, exempting bars and restaurants
Iowa
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (4 total):
- Ames, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Coralville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Iowa City, July 16, 2015, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants or selling to minors.
- North Liberty, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
Kansas
- No statewide vaping ban. Instead, vaping is generally prohibited on all Department of Corrections property and grounds, by both employees and inmates, with no exceptions whatsoever. All other indoor places, including bars, restaurants, and gambling facilities are entirely exempt from the state e-cigarette regulations. Localities may regulate vaping more stringently than the state.
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (7 total):
- Eudora, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Hutchinson, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Manhattan, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Olathe, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Overland Park, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Park City, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Topeka, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Wyandotte County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
Kentucky
- No statewide vaping ban. Instead, vaping is prohibited only on all properties of State Executive Branch, including buildings, vehicles, and land, but excluding specific outdoor areas such as parks, Kentucky Horse Park, and Kentucky State Fairgrounds. Per Governor's Office, does not apply to State colleges and universities. Localities may regulate vaping more stringently than the state.
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (10 total):
- Bardstown, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Berea, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Danville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants, as well as within ten feet of the entrance of any such place
- Glasgow, banned in bars and restaurants, but not all other workplaces
- Lexington, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Manchester, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Morehead, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Richmond, September 9, 2014, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Versailles, October 6, 2014, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Woodford County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
Louisiana
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (7 total):
- Abbeville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Cheneyville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Hammond, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Monroe, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- New Orleans, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Ouachita Parish, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- West Monroe, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
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Localities with vaping bans that do not include all bars and restaurants (1 total):
- Sulphur, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Lake Charles, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
Maine
- Statewide vaping ban. Effective October 1, 2015, vaping is prohibited in all smoke-free areas, which included bars and restaurants. Localities may regulate vaping more stringently than the state.
Maryland
- No statewide vaping ban. Instead, vaping is prohibited only on MARC commuter rail system trains. All other indoor places, including bars and restaurants, that are subject to the Maryland Clean Indoor Air Act are entirely exempt from the state's vaping regulations. Localities may regulate vaping more stringently than the state.
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (3 total):
- Howard County, July 31, 2015, banned in bars, restaurants, stores, offices, sports complexes and at open-air concerts.
- Montgomery County, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Prince George's County, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces; exempts video lottery establishments
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Localities with vaping bans that do not include all bars and restaurants (1 total):
- Baltimore, banned in all enclosed workplaces, exempting bars and restaurants; also exempts video lottery facilities and e-cigarette shops
Massachusetts
- Governor Charlie Baker ordered a 4 month ban on all e-cigarette sales. This was later changed to a ban lasting indefinitely.[6]
- Vaping is banned on all state college & university campuses.
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (116 total):
- Acton, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Adams, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Amherst, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Andover, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Arlington, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Ashland, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Athol, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Attleboro, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Auburn, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Barre, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Billerica, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Bolton, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Boston, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Bourne, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Bridgewater, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Buckland, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Burlington, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Cambridge, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; exempts Housing Authority developments & outdoor restaurant & bar patios
- Charlemont, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Cohasset, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Concord, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Dartmouth, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Dedham, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Deerfield, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Dighton, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Dover, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Dracut, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Eastham, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Easthampton, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Fairhaven, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Fitchburg, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Foxborough, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Franklin, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Gardner, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Gill, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Gloucester, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Grafton, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Granby, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Great Barrington, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Greenfield, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Halifax, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Hamilton, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Hatfield, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; exempts hotels/motels
- Haverhill, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Holyoke, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Hubbardston, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Hudson, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Hull, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Lee, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Leicester, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Lenox, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Leominster, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Leverett, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Lexington, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Lynn, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Lynnfield, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Marblehead, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Marion, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Marlborough, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Marshfield, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Mashpee, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Medfield, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Medway, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Methuen, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Milford, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Montague, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Natick, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Needham, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- New Bedford, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Newburyport, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Newton, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Northampton, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- North Andover, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- North Attleborough, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- North Reading, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Orange, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Orleans, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Oxford, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Pittsfield, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Plainville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Provincetown, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Reading, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Rockland, September 3, 2015, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Salem, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Saugus, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Sharon, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Shelburne, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Sherborn, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Shrewsbury, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Somerset, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Somerville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- South Hadley, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Stockbridge, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Sunderland, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Sutton, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Swampscott, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Swansea, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Taunton, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Tewksbury, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Townsend, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Tynsborough, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Wakefield, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Watertown, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Wayland, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Webster, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Wendell, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- West Springfield, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Westminster, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Westport, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Westwood, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Weymouth, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Whately, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Williamstown, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Winchendon, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Winchester, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Worcester, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Yarmouth, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
Michigan
- Washtenaw County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, exempting bars and restaurants and is not illegal to use a "vaporizer" inside of domestic homes, houses, etc.
- Canton, use of electronic cigarettes by minors is a misdemeanor
- Eaton Rapids, use of electronic cigarettes by minors is a civil infraction.
- Hastings, Use of electronic cigarettes by minors is a civil infraction.
- Port Huron, use or possession of e-cigarettes, Vapor Products, or Alternative Nicotine Products by minors is a misdemeanor. Also prohibited is the sale or furnishing of said items to minors. Smoking for any purposes outside of the cooking of food is not allowed in city parks or beaches.
Minnesota
- No statewide vaping ban. Instead, vaping is prohibited only in state and local government buildings, facilities of state colleges and universities, facilities licensed by Commissioner of Human Services, and facilities licensed by Commissioner of Health. All other indoor places subject to the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act, including bars and restaurants, are entirely exempt from the state's regulation. Localities may regulate vaping more stringently than the state.
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (38 total):
- Austin, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; use of vaporized medical marijuana permitted wherever not prohibited by State law
- Beltrami County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; exempts e-cigarette shops for purposes of sampling non-nicotine substances
- Big Stone County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Bloomington, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Chippewa County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Clay County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Duluth, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Eagle Lake, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Eden Prairie, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Edina, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Elk River, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Ely, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Glyndon, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Hennepin County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Hermantown, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Houston County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Isanti, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Jordan, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Lac Qui Parle County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Lakeville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Mankato, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Marshall County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Minneapolis, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Moorhead, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- North Mankato, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Olmsted County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; use of vaporized medical marijuana permitted wherever not prohibited by law
- Orono, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Perham, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Ramsey County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Red Wing, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Richfield, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Savage, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Sleepy Eye, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- St. Anthony, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- St. Louis County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Steele County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Waseca, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Wilkin County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
Mississippi
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (55 total):
- Anguilla, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Arcola, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Baldwyn, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Bassfield, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Beulah, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Brandon, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Bruce, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Byram, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Calhoun City, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Clinton, banned in all bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Centreville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Coahoma County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Courtland, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Crawford, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Duck Hill, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Duncan, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Durant, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Ethel, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Farmington, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Fayette, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Forest, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Friars Point, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Georgetown, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Holly Springs, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Indianola, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Isola, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Itta Bena, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Iuka, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Louisville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Magee, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Mantachie, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Mendenhall, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Monticello, banned in all bars and restaurants, but not all other enclosed workplaces
- Moorhead, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Nettleton, February 5, 2015, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- New Augusta, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Petal, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Pickens, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Pittsboro, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Plantersville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Prentiss, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Rolling Fork, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Sidon, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Sledge, June 4, 2014, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Southaven, August 4, 2014, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- State Line, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Sumner, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Tupelo, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Tutwiler, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Walnut, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Walnut Grove, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Weir, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Wesson, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Wiggins, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Woodville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
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Localities with vaping bans that do not include all bars and restaurants (2 total):
- Diamondhead, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Flowood, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
Missouri
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Localities with a vaping ban that includes all bars and restaurants (9 total):
- Branson, July 1, 2015, banned in all enclosed public places and workplaces by unanimous Board of Aldermen vote in October 2014; exempts up to 20% of designated hotel and motel smoking rooms, tobacco shops, smoking lounges in tobacco-related businesses, private homes, outdoor areas in places of employment, outdoor patios of restaurants, and golf courses.
- Clinton, March 1, 2015, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Columbia, banned in all workplaces, including bars and restaurants; exempts rented social halls, separately ventilated offices occupied exclusively by smokers, stage performances, retail tobacco shops, and private clubs with no employees.
- Creve Coeur, January 2, 2011, banned by unanimous city council vote in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; exempts cigar bars, private clubs, tobacco shops, and hotel/motel designated smoking rooms
- Farmington, November 13, 2015, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants, after public vote of 59%-41% and including within 15 feet (4.6 m) of entrances; exempts cigar bars, vape shops, hotel rooms, private clubs, and nursing homes
- Gainesville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Kansas City, banned in all indoor workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- St. Joseph, June 7, 2014, banned in all enclosed workplaces and public places, including all bars, restaurants, and private and semiprivate rooms in nursing homes, after public vote of 52.75%–47.25%; exempts private vehicles and residences, 10% of hotel and motel rooms designated as smoking, private clubs (when no employees are present), and casino gaming areas (including bars, restaurants, and lounges within those gaming areas). 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.
- Washington, April 15, 2013, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants by unanimous city council vote; also banned in private rooms in nursing homes; exempts only private residences not serving as a workplace and designated smoking rooms in hotels and motels; exempts hookah lounges until April 15, 2014
Montana
Montana governor Steve Bullock announced a statewide ban on the sale of flavored vaping products. This ban will take effect on October 22, 2019 and will affect both retail in shops and online. The restriction will last for 4 months.
New Hampshire
- Statewide vaping ban. Smoking is defined as having a lit cigarette, pipe, or any device designed to produce the effect of smoking, including devices as defined in RSA 126-K:2, II-a. Devices may include, but are not limited to, hookahs, e-cigarettes, e-cigars, e-pipes, e-hookahs, and vape pens. The Indoor Smoking Act clarifies that all tobacco products are prohibited in enclosed workplaces and enclosed places accessible to the public. [7]
New Jersey
- Statewide vaping ban. On March 13, 2010, a law went into effect prohibited vaping everywhere that smoking is banned, which is in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants. Localities may regulate vaping more stringently. (NJ Title 26:3D-55 - 60)
New Mexico
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (1 total):
- Santa Fe, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
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Localities with vaping bans that do not include all bars and restaurants (1 total):
- Carlsbad, banned in all enclosed workplaces, exempting bars and restaurants
New York
- Statewide vaping ban. On November 22, 2017, a law went into effect prohibiting vaping everywhere that smoking is banned, including all enclosed workplaces, bars and restaurants.[8]
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Localities with a vaping ban that include all bars and restaurants (6 total):
- Albany, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants [9]
- Cattaraugus County, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Lynbrook, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- New York City, prohibited to anyone under 21 years of age; also prohibited everywhere smoking is banned indoors and out; vaping is allowed only in e-cigarette shops
- Suffolk County, prohibited to anyone under 21 years of age; also prohibited everywhere smoking is banned indoors and out
- Tompkins County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Westchester County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
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Localities with vaping bans that do not include bars and restaurants (1 total):
- Broome County, New York, banned in and near county buildings.
North Carolina
Localities may regulate vaping indoors, but not in bars and restaurants.
- Asheville, March 10, 2015, banned from city buses, parks and greenways and in facilities such as the U.S. Cellular Center
- Waynesville, May 23, 2015, banned on sidewalks, public parks, parking lots, greenways, city vehicles and the area in and surrounding town buildings
North Dakota
- Statewide vaping ban. On November 6, 2012, by a vote of 66%-34%, North Dakota voters ratified Initiative Measure Four, which, upon taking effect in December 2012, amends North Dakota's existing partial smoking ban so as to ban smoking statewide in all enclosed public places and places of employment, including all bars, restaurants, and tobacco stores with all restrictions applying to e-cigarettes as well. The ban exempts only (1) private residences except when operating as a childcare or adult day care facility, (2) outdoor areas except within 20 feet of the entrance to a public place or place of employment, (3) businesses not open to the public with no employees besides the owner, and (4) American Indian religious and cultural rituals. Local governments may regulate vaping more stringently than the state.
Ohio
- Statewide vaping ban: Effective September 30, 2021, according to Chapter 3794 of the Ohio Revised Code, vaping is prohibited in all places where smoking is prohibited (which includes bars and restaurants), with the exception of retail establishments that make at least 80% of their gross revenue from the sale of vaping products.
Oklahoma
- No statewide vaping ban. Instead, vaping is only prohibited in all Dept. of Corrections facilities, including vehicles and grounds. Localities are prohibited from regulating vaping more stringently than the state. Also, sales, gifts and furnishing of vapor products to persons under the age of 18 are subject to legal action the same way as if it were alcohol to a person under 21.
Oregon
- Statewide vaping ban: Effective January 1, 2016, vaping is prohibited in all smoke free areas, which includes bars and restaurants. Localities may regulate vaping more stringently than the state. On October 4, 2019, Oregon Governor Kate Brown issued a 180-day ban on the sale of flavored vapes.[10]
Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia, banned in all enclosed workplaces, exempting bars where food accounts for less than 10% of sales and alcohol accounts for more than 90% of sales, and persons under 18 are prohibited. Philadelphia's ordinance is the only local vaping ban in Pennsylvania. Vaping is also banned at all city parks.
Rhode Island
- Statewide vaping ban: Use of electronic nicotine delivery systems included in definition of “smoking” and prohibited in same places smoking is prohibited (23 R.I. Gen. Laws Ann. §§ 23-20.10-2(19) (2018) (definition of smoking)), including public places, health care facilities, child and adult day care facilities, common areas of multi-unit housing (more than 4 units), public transportation, schools and indoor and outdoor sports arenas (23 R.I. Gen. Laws Ann. § 23-20.10-3 (2018)); workplaces (23 R.I. Gen. Laws Ann. § 23-20.10-4 (2018)), with some exceptions (23 R.I. Gen. Laws Ann. §§ 23-20.10-6; 23-20.10-6.1(2018)). Possession and use of e-cigarettes, including by visitors, prohibited in all Rhode Island Department of Corrections facilities, vehicles and property. 240-20 R.I. Code R. §§ 1.6(D), 1.16(D) (2018).
South Carolina
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Localities with a vaping ban that include all bars and restaurants. (6 total):
- Denmark, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Estill, May 1, 2013, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Hartsville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Inman, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- West Pelzer, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
- Yemassee, August 9, 2013, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars and restaurants
South Dakota
- No statewide vaping ban. Instead, vaping is only prohibited in Department of Corrections facilities and on grounds thereof, by both employees and inmates. All other indoor places, including bars and restaurants, are entirely exempt from the state's regulations, and it remains unclear whether or not local government are allowed to regulate their usage more stringently.
Texas
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (18 total):
- Austin, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants.
- Bonham, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Denton, April 22, 2015, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; previous smoking ordinance that allowed smoking in bars did not include e-cigarettes
- Desoto, January 1, 2016, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Duncanville, May 1, 2016, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Edinburg, December 1, 2015, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- El Paso, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Frisco, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Harlingen, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Laredo, banned in all area's of the city, including bars and restaurants.
- Lufkin, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- San Angelo, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- San Marcos, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Seagoville, March 3, 2016, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Sherman, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces
- Socorro, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Tyler, banned in all places where traditional tobacco smoking is banned, all city owned property, and all privately owned bars and restaurants. Exemptions are available for retail tobacco and vaping shops
- Waco, January 1, 2016, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Waxahachie, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
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Localities with vaping bans that do not include all bars and restaurants (7 total):
- Bedford, banned in restaurants, but not bars or other enclosed workplaces
- Boerne, banned in restaurants, but not bars or other enclosed workplaces
- Burkburnett, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Highland Village Texas, June 1, 2011 banned in all enclosed public places as well as restaurants; the law is silent as to whether or not bars are included
- Joshua, banned in all enclosed public places as well as restaurants; the law is silent as to whether or not bars are included
- Weatherford, banned in restaurants, but not bars or other enclosed workplaces
- Wichita Falls, banned in all enclosed workplaces, exempting bars and restaurants
Utah
- Statewide vaping ban: Effective January 1, 2011, vaping is prohibited in all indoor places exempting only (1) designated hotel/motel smoking rooms, (2) areas of owner-operated businesses with no employees besides the owner, and (3) American Indian religious and cultural ceremonies. Since the state law supersedes any ordinances passed by political subdivisions of the state (i.e., cities, counties, school districts, agencies, etc.), such political subdivisions are preempted from regulating indoor smoking or vaping any more or less stringently than the Act.[401]
Vermont
- Statewide vaping ban: Effective January 1, 2017, vaping is prohibited in public areas where smoking is banned.[11]
Virginia
- No statewide vaping ban. Instead, vaping is prohibited on Virginia Railway Express trains, all northern schools, and limited to 100 feet on north end of station platforms. All other indoor places can freely permit vaping if they choose. The law is silent as to whether local governments can regulate vaping more stringently than the state, since they are forbidden from regulating smoking more stringently.
Washington
- No statewide vaping ban. Washington State Ferries forbids vaping on its vessels as per an announcement given on every sailing. A 4 month ban on flavored vaping products was enacted in October 2019.[12]
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (6 total):
- Grant County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; vaping is allowed only in e-cigarette shops
- King County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Pasco, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Pierce County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Snohomish County, banned 25 feet from public places and enclosed areas and outdoor venues. Only tribal businesses on reservation land and permitted vape product retail shops are exempted per section 14.7 of Health District Sanitary Code 13.2 and 14.6.
- Whatcom County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
West Virginia
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Localities with a vaping ban that include all bars and restaurants (24 total):
- Barbour County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Berkeley County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Brooke County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Calhoun County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Grant County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Greenbrier County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Hampshire County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Hancock County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Lewis County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Mason County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Mineral County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Monroe County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Nicholas County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Ohio County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Pleasants County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Preston County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Randolph County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Ritchie County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Roane County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Taylor County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Tucker County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Upshur County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Wirt County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Wood County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
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Localities with a vaping ban that do not include all bars and restaurants (5 total):
- Marshall County, banned in all restaurants, but not bars or all other workplaces
- Mercer County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Morgan County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Webster County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including restaurants but exempting bars
- Wyoming County, banned in all enclosed workplaces except bars and restaurants
Wisconsin
- No statewide vaping ban. Instead, vaping is only prohibited at indoor facilities of State Fair and at main stage area. All other places covered by the state's smoking regulations, including bars and restaurants, are entirely exempt and may permit vaping if they choose. Local governments may regulate vaping more stringently than the state, so long as it's to have smoke-free laws that address the provision of vaping alongside all smoke-free areas.
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Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (10 total):
- Ashwaubenon, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Dane County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Florence County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Greenfield, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Janesville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Jefferson County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- La Crosse County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Madison, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; vaping is only allowed in retail e-cigarette shops
- Milwaukee, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Onalaska, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Wausau, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
Wyoming
- Laramie, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other workplaces; ban includes private clubs
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