Tracking Commercial Tobacco Laws - A Minnesota State Digest

The manufacturers agreed to these requirements, along with annual settlement payments that have resulted in the payment of billions of dollars to the state — payments that will continue as long as the cigarette manufacturers remain in business.7 For several years, a small portion of the money was used to address the problems of commercial tobacco use. [...] Although Minnesota is not a participant in the MSA, the “most favored state” provision in Minnesota’s settlement agreement enabled Minnesota’s Attorney General to invoke the MSA language in connection with the sale and marketing of tobacco products in the state. [...] The Act has been amended several times to keep pace with knowledge of health harms and to regulate new hazardous products that the industry has introduced into the marketplace, including recent amendments to regulate the use of electronic delivery devices (e-cigarettes) in public places and places of employment.10 The Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act preserves the power of local governments to impos. [...] The rest of the section contains brief summaries of state and federal laws restricting smoking and the use of commercial tobacco products, including the use of electronic delivery devices, in Minnesota. [...] The tobacco industry often attempts to limit the authority of local governments that propose ordinances and other policies to strengthen the regulation of sales and the use of commercial tobacco products.