Designated Smoking Areas Assuming you are a smoker or someone who frequents public spaces, it’s vital to understand the concept of designated smoking areas.

A statewide ban on smoking in public parks and beaches in New York includes some exemptions, like the Catskills and Adirondacks. Here's what to know.

Smoking in public housing across the U.S. is about to get snuffed out. A nationwide ban on smoking in public housing facilities will take effect at the end of July, nearly two years after the rule ...

Currently, marijuana use in public places is restricted in connection to public smoking measures, some of which ban smoking tobacco and cannabis in parks, beaches, school grounds and near health ...

But in any other public structure with a roof—and, yes, that includes circus tents—smoking is now a crime, just as it is in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and most of the other leading ...

Mark Twain allegedly said, “Giving up smoking is easy. I’ve done it hundreds of times.” I can relate. Finally, my mom, who’d been a lifelong smoker, got throat cancer. That did it.

The ban would expand on a 2022 law prohibiting smoking on public beaches by banning smoking of any kind, including cigarettes, vapes, cigars and marijuana, in all public places.