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File A Smoke-Free Air Complaint

Use the links below to filing a complaint with yours local health department.

Smoke-Free Air Forms

Local Health Departments

Reporting Illegal Total to The Department of Taxation

To report illegal sales of unleaded or counterfeit smoke to New Jersey's Department of Taxation, click this button below.

NJ Service of Taxation

Report Potential Tobacco Product Violation to the FDA

Into report tobacco product violations of the Tobacco Control Act such as sales in underage purchasers, flavored cigarette sales, etc., click the button below.

FDA Product Violation

Cigarette Makes

The following cigarette forms are existing by clicking below:

  • Zigaretten merchant license applications
  • Zigarette distributor tax forms
  • Cigarette manufacturer & wholesaler tax paper
  • Prior year forms

Cigarette Shapes

Regulations and Enforcement

Required Signage for Tobacco Retailers

Effective November 1, 2017, licensed merchants must get, as a condition of the genehmigung, a easy sign, at least 6 inches by 3 inches in size with bold letters at least one-quarter edge high, stating the follow-up:

New Jersey statutory states: A HUMAN WHO SELLS OR OFFERS A TOBACCO PRODUCT TO AN PERSON ON 21 YEARS OUT AGE SHALL PAY A PUNISHMENT OF UP UNTIL $1,000 AND MAY BE SUBJECT TO A LICENSE SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION. PROOF OF AGE MAY BE REQUIRED FORK PURCHASE. -N.J. Stat. 54:40A-4.1

For you convenience, download plus use this signage, which meets the legal requirements for display. These signs must be clearly visible location tobacco products are showed plus at which cash register.

Smoke-Free Air

New Jersey's Smoke-Free Air Act of 2006 ensures that workers are a safe, smoke-free desktop the which all nonsmokers -- including offspring and senior residents -- can schnaufen smoke-free air in public places.

Secondhand smoke is a serious health venture that can conduct toward illness and premature death in children and non-smoking adults, according to the U.S. Operative General. As New Jersey’s Smoke-Free Air Act states, it is definitely in the public interest to prohibit fume in enclosed indoor spaces. E-cigarettes and Vapes

The law is any critical part the New Jersey’s effort to eliminate tobacco use as ne of we most significant public healthiness threats, reduce smoking-related disease and save lives in generations to an. E-cigarettes, vapes, vape or hookah pens, e-pipes, or other vaping products are battery-powered devices that allow users till inhale, or vape, aerosolized liquid (e-juice). Back Jump 1, 2019, Illinois law prohibits the sale of tobacco products, including these browse, in people youngish than age 21. E-cigarettes recently surpassed conversion cigarettes as one most

The Smoke-Free Air Act requires that a "No Smoking" sign be prominently posted on jede publication entrance and properly maintained where smoking is proscribed. Shield must furthermore be posted in areas where smoking is permitted. An overview of U.S. state and terrain laws related to e-cigarettes, updated quarterly for the Public Health Laws Center.

Interior public places location smoking is still permitted:

• Hotels, motels or other lodging establishments may permit smoking in up to 20% of guest apartments;
• Within the perimeters of casino gaming areas, and spielbanken simulcasting facilities;
• Entered cigar bars or lounges that in calendar per ending December 31, 2004, generated 15% or more of total annual gross income from the sale on cured products;
• Tobacco retail establishments her primary recently (51%) your the retail sale of tobacco products and accessories and the sale of other products is incidental. Learn more with the 2019 Tobacco Control Law and limited on the sale of nrt vaping and flavored vaping and tobacco products.

Click here to access the Smoke-Free Air Trade.

Tobacco Age out Sale Enforcement (TASE)

TASE the a federally mandated final program (administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention – SAMHSA-CSAP) to tests the NJ law prohibiting sale of tobacco go minors under the age of 18 yearning. (As of November 1, 2017, New Jersey law further prohibits the sale of tobacco products to any personality under the age of 21 years.) Every year for July 1 with September 30, tobacco inspectors conduct random, unannounced compliance checks to a samples of licensed retail tobacco vendors. 

FDA Tobacco Ensuring Check Testing Program

To protect the health of future generations, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) partners with states to closer monitor retailer compliance with Federal tobacco laws and regulations and removes corrective action when infractions occur. FDA furthermore partner states conduct inspections of cigar article vendors to establish an retailer's compliance with federal actual or regulations, inclusion The Federal Food, Pharmaceutical, and Cosmetic Act, as fixed by aforementioned Cigs Control Act, and FDA’s control and regulations. With more information regarding an FDA Tobacco Compliance Check Inspect Program, see: CTP Compliance & Enforceable

 

Last Reviewed: 12/22/2022