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Program Activities
RI Tobacco Control Program
3 Capitol Hill, Room 408
Providence, RI 02908-5097
Phone: 401-222-3293
Fax: 401-222-4415
Contact: Seema Dixit

 

 

Tobacco Control Program

Rhode Island Laws

Taxes 
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/Statutes/TITLE44/44-20/INDEX.HTM

Smoking In Public Places
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/Statutes/TITLE23/23-20.10/INDEX.HTM

Workplace Smoking Pollution Control Act
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/Statutes/TITLE23/23-20-7/INDEX.HTM

Schools
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/Statutes/TITLE23/23-20-9/INDEX.HTM

Youth
§ 11-9-13  Purchase, sale or delivery of tobacco products to persons under eighteen – Posting notice of law.

§ 11-9-13.1  Cigarette and tobacco vending machines.

§ 11-9-13.5  Responsibility for tobacco or health issues.

§ 11-9-13.7  Signs concerning sales to individuals under age eighteen (18).

§ 11-9-13.8  Prohibitions applicable to license holders and their employees and agents.

§ 11-9-13.10  Prohibition on the distribution of free tobacco products.

§ 11-9-13.15  Penalty for operating without a dealer license.

§ 11-9-14  Use of tobacco by minors.

The Master Settlement Agreement
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/Statutes/TITLE23/23-71/INDEX.HTM

Other Laws
Tobacco Cessation Programs

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