355. Tobacco

355.992 Smoking Ban

 

Colorado Medical Society strongly and actively supports both state and local efforts to prohibit smoking in the following places:

1. All enclosed areas of worksites and public places owned, rented, leased or otherwise under the control of the State of Colorado including motor vehicles.
2. Restrooms, lobbies, reception areas, hallways and any other common-use areas.
3. Buses, taxicabs, and other means of public transit under the authority of the State of Colorado, and ticket, boarding, and waiting areas of public transit depots.
4. All restaurants and bars.
5. Service lines.
6. Retail stores.
7. All areas available to and customarily used by the general public in all businesses and non-profit entities patronized by the public, including but not limited to, banks, laundromats, hotels and motels.
8. All areas of galleries, libraries and museums.
9. Any facility which is primarily used for exhibiting any motion picture, stage, drama, lecture, musical recital or other similar performance, except performers when smoking is part of a stage production.
10. Sports arenas.
11. Convention halls.
12. Public and private meeting facilities.
13. Every room, chamber, place of meeting or public assembly, including school buildings under the control of any board, council, commission, committee, including joint committees, or agencies of the State of Colorado or any political subdivision of the State of Colorado, to the extent such location is subject to the jurisdiction of the State of Colorado.
14. Waiting rooms, hallways, wards and semi-private rooms of health facilities, including, but not limited to, hospitals, clinics, physical therapy facilities, doctors’ offices, and dentists’ offices.
15. Lobbies, hallways, and other common areas in hotels, motels, multiple-tenant office buildings and malls, apartment buildings, condominiums, trailer parks, retirement facilities, nursing homes, and other multiple-unit residential facilities.
16. Eighty percent (80%) of hotel and motel rooms rented to guests.
17. Airplanes.

(RES-32, AM 2004; Reaffirmed, BOD-1, AM 2014)

355.993 Display of Tobacco Advertisements

 

The Colorado Medical Society opposes the display in patient areas of periodicals and printed materials containing tobacco advertisements.
(RES-24, AM 2000; Reaffirmed, BOD-1, AM 2014)

355.994 Tobacco Settlement

 

(RES-13, AM 1999; Sunset, BOD-1, AM 2014)

355.995 Tobacco Related Research

 

The Colorado Medical Society supports a restriction on tobacco industry funding for tobacco related research in any state-supported institution.
(RES-44, AM 1996; Reaffirmed, BOD-1, AM 2014)

355.996 State Excise Taxes on Tobacco Products

 

The Colorado Medical Society supports and encourages the passage of increased excise taxes on tobacco products and that these proceeds support educational cessation, prevention activities and increase patient access to medical services.
(RES-64, AM 1992; Reaffirmed, BOD-1, AM 2014)

355.997 Smoke-Free Colorado Medical Society

 

Smoking is prohibited at all Colorado Medical Society (CMS) functions. Smoking is prohibited in the offices of the CMS.
(Motion of the Board, January 1982, Substitute RES 67, AM 1990; Reaffirmed, BOD-1, AM 2014)

355.998 Reducing Tobacco Sales to Children

 

The Colorado Medical Society supports strict compliance with and enforcement of laws prohibiting sale of tobacco to children.
(RES-41, AM 1990; Reaffirmed, BOD-1, AM 2014)

355.999 Limitation on Distribution of Tobacco

 

The Colorado Medical Society (CMS) opposes the sale of tobacco products in vending machines. The CMS opposes the free distribution of tobacco products as a promotional tool of the tobacco manufacturers.
(RES-31, AM 1988; Reaffirmed, BOD-1, AM 2014)