Educating your Employees About the Smoke-Free Arizona Act
The Smoke-Free Arizona Act, A.R.S. § 36-601.01 (“the Act”), requires proprietors to educate employees
about its requirements. The following tips can be used to communicate with your employees:

Prospective Employees

Existing Employees
 Discuss the requirements of the Act at
staff meetings or distribute memos or
paycheck inserts
 Add a “No Smoking” policy to your
employee manual
 Post your “No Smoking” policy on
your company website
 Display an informational poster in the
employee lounge or break room

App
Place a complaint by using the
mysmokefreeAZ App.
Our app can be downloaded for
iPhone and Android. When
placing a complaint, please
provide as much information as
possible. If you are not sure
whether the issue you want to
report is a violation of the Act,
please feel free to call us at

1-877-429-6676.
When complaints are filed with
allegations that are not violations
of the Act, those complaints are
not investigated and are
closed out.

 Distribute Smoke-Free Arizona
brochures during employee training
 Include articles in your employee
newsletter about the requirements of
the Act and the health effects of
secondhand smoke
 Encourage employees to visit
smokefreearizona.org for more
information about the Act

Tips

 Add a brief description of the Act on your
employee application form
 Include an agreement policy that explains the
requirements of the Act on the application
and require the applicant to check a box confirming that they have read the information
 Discuss the requirements of the Act briefly
during candidate interviews
 Disclose your smoking policy on your
company website
 Post a link to smokefreearizona.org on
your website

As a proprietor, if you choose to designate…

A smoke-free
Campus

A smoke-free
Area

A smoking Area

please consider
Clearly identifying
the campus as
smoke-free

Clearly identifying
the areas as nonsmoking

Educating
residents, visitors,
employees, or
other patrons
about your smokefree campus policy

Educating
residents, visitors,
employees, or other
patrons about
where smoking is
prohibited

Providing directional
signs for individuals
looking for the
designated smoking
area
Educating residents,
visitors, employees, or
other patrons about
where smoking is
allowed

A smoking
outdoor patio
Providing directional signs
for individuals looking for
the smoking patio
Educating residents, visitors,
employees, or other patrons
about where smoking is
allowed
Using a method that
prevents tobacco smoke
from physically entering into
the establishment

To order the “Clearing the Air For Employers” Brochure, please contact us or go on the following link: www.smokefreearizona.org/info-downloads.asp