Smoke-Free Cities

Welcome to the Smoke-Free Cities Resource Hub, a dedicated space designed to support your city government in building healthier, stronger communities.

About the Smoke-Free Cities Hub

This page is exclusively available to cities who are committed to advancing comprehensive smoke-free policies.

Here, you’ll find ready-to-use materials to guide your city’s journey, from understanding the health and economic benefits of smoke-free environments to navigating legal frameworks. Whether your city is in the early planning stages or advancing implementation, the Resource Hub is designed to help you move from vision to action.

This hub provides practical tools, webinars, legal templates, and evidence-based resources to help cities move toward comprehensive smoke-free policies. By bringing together proven strategies, global best practices and legal guidance, we aim to make it easier for cities to take bold, effective action.

Research Materials

Fact Sheet

The Future of a Smoke-Free City

Comprehensive smoke-free laws have been adopted at the national, state/provincial, and local levels around the world to protect everyone’s right to breathe clean air in all workpla...

Fact Sheet

Health Harms of Secondhand Smoke

Secondhand smoke contains a complex and toxic mixture of more than 7,000 chemicals, including about 70 known carcinogens. There is no known safe level of exposure to secondhand smo...

Fact Sheet

Smoke-Free Laws Benefit Businesses

Evidence shows that smoke-free laws benefit health without harming business and in fact produce many economic benefits.

Fact Sheet

Smoke-Free Laws Improve Health & Save Lives

Comprehensive smoke-free laws improve public health by reducing workers’ and the public’s exposure to toxic secondhand smoke, encouraging and helping smokers to quit, and discourag...

Fact Sheet

Smoke-Free Laws Reduce the Economic Burden on Individuals and Businesses

Secondhand smoke exposure causes disease and death, raises individual and business costs, and weakens the economy. Comprehensive smokefree laws are the cheapest, fairest, and most ...

Legal Materials

Legal Document

Framework for Smoke-Free Legal Measures

This resource provides a framework for assessing your smoke-free legal measures to ensure that they reflect legal obligations and global best practices consistent with the WHO Fram...

Legal Document

Gap Analysis

This resource is designed to assist a reviewer in evaluating smoke-free legal measures to ensure that they reflect legal obligations and global best practices. It should be read in...

Legal Document

Template for a Smoke-Free Environments Ordinance

This resource provides a template for municipalities interested in drafting legal measures to create smoke-free environments that are consistent with legal obligations and global b...

Additional Materials

Legal Document

Air Quality Monitoring: How to Get Started & How We Can Help

Air quality monitoring (AQM) studies are useful tools for monitoring harmful pollution from secondhand smoke. This document provides an overview of AQM studies and suggests ways to...

Legal Document

Smoke-Free Laws: Effective Messages

Our most effective message in support of smoke-free laws in all indoor workplaces and public places, including bars, restaurants, public transportation, etc., is simple: Everyone h...

Legal Document

Assessing Compliance With Smoke-Free Laws

This guide promotes best practice in assessing compliance with smoke-free laws. It will be of interest to a range of audiences interested in this topic, including public health adv...

Legal Document

Smoke-Free Policies: Protecting Everyone's Right to Breathe Clean Air

Presentation detailing the health harms caused by secondhand smoke and and evidence that comprehensive smoke-free laws work to save lives and health care dollars and are good for b...

Legal Document

Smoke-Free Poll Questions

Editable document with poll questions that can be used to assess public opinion and demonstrate public support for smoke-free laws.