Adult Smoking Prevalence: 22.1%

African American Population: 26%

Policy:
Alabama does not have a statewide smoke-free law that provides adequate protection against exposure to secondhand smoke in public places.

Adult Smoking Prevalence: 14%

African American Population: 7%

Policy:
Smoke-Free Workplace Law banned smoking in most indoor workplaces, including restaurants and clubs. Smoking bans in bars went into effect in 1998.

Adult Smoking Prevalence: 15.9%

African American Population: 10%

Policy:
On October 1, 2003, the Clean Indoor Air Act went into effect, banning smoking statewide in all enclosed workplaces in Connecticut, including restaurants and bars (bars, cafes, and bowling alleys were exempt until April 1, 2004. The Act exempts correctional and psychiatric facilities, public housing projects, private clubs whose liquor permit was issued on or before May 1, 2003, areas of businesses where tobacco products are developed and tested, and cigar bars (a business that has a liquor permit and generated at least 10% of its 2002 gross income from on-site sales of tobacco products or humidor rentals and has not changed its size or location after December 31, 2002). If a business has five or fewer employees (except bars and restaurants), the employer and all employees can agree to designate 20% of the place's enclosed space as a smoking area, provided that it is separately ventilated and adequate breakroom space for nonsmokers is allocated.

Adult Smoking Prevalence:  21.3%

African American Population: 11%

Policy:
Effective September 11, 2008, after being signed into law by Governor Ed Rendell on June 13, 2008, Pennsylvania's 1988 Clean Indoor Air Act was amended to ban smoking statewide in all restaurants and other enclosed workplaces in Pennsylvania, except as exempted. The Act exempts eating/drinking establishments where 20% or less of sales come from food AND persons under 18 are not allowed, private homes and vehicles, except those used as a child daycare or adult care facility, designated hotel/motel smoking rooms, full service truck stops, retail tobacco shops, workplaces of tobacco manufacturers and wholesalers, nursing homes, designated smoking areas in day treatment facilities, psychiatric facilities, and healthcare facilities, private clubs when closed to the public, including volunteer fire, ambulance, and rescue stations, tobacco-related fundraisers, places rented for tobacco exhibitions, cigar bars, 25% of a casino gaming floor, and outdoor areas.

Adult Smoking Prevalence: 14.8%

African American Population:14%

Policy:
On April 15, 2006, the New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act went into effect, banning smoking statewide in all enclosed workplaces in New Jersey, including all bars and restaurants, strip clubs, hospitals, psychiatric facilities, as well as outside portions of school grounds. The Act exempts city parks, cigar bars, tobacco retail stores, tobacco manufacturing facilities, private residences and private automobiles, off-track betting parlors, and designated hotel/motel smoking rooms.

Adult Smoking Prevalence: 17.8%

African American Population: 21%

Policy:
On November 1, 2002, the Clean Indoor Air Act went into effect, banning smoking statewide in all enclosed workplaces in Delaware, including bars, restaurants, and casinos. The Act exempts private homes and automobiles not used for childcare or daycare or the public transportation of children, rented social halls while being rented, limousines under private hire, hotel/motel rooms designated as smoking rooms, fundraising activities sponsored by an ambulance or fire company while on property owned or leased by the company, and fundraising activities sponsored by a fraternal benefit society taking place upon property owned or leased by the society.

Adult Smoking Prevalence: 18.1%
 

African American Population: < 5%

Policy:
Effective August 1, 2005, smoking was banned statewide in all enclosed places of employment in North Dakota, exempting (1) bars, (2) private residences, except when operating as a childcare facility when children are present, (3) designated hotel/motel smoking rooms, (4) retail tobacco stores, (5) outdoor areas except sports arenas, (6) businesses not open to the public with no employees besides the owner, (7) any place generally open to the public but under control of a private party renting it and children are excluded from the function, (8) separately enclosed areas in truckstops that are accessible only to adults, and (9) Native American religious and cultural rituals.

Adult Smoking Prevalence: 17.6%

African American Population: < 5%

Policy:
On July 1, 2006, the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act went into effect, banning smoking in all enclosed workplaces statewide, including bars and restaurants. Casinos, initially exempt, were added to the ban Jan. 1, 2008. The Act only exempts private residences and automobiles unless used for the public transportation of children or as part of healthcare or daycare, limousines under private hire, hotel/motel rooms designated as smoking rooms, retail tobacco stores, cigar bars, designated areas in airports, outdoor areas, workplaces not open to the public where the employer employs three or fewer employees, private nonresidential buildings on a farm or ranch that has annual gross income of less than $500,000, and designated areas in nursing homes.