Corporate Smokefree Policies

Save Lives, Save Money: Make Your Business Smoke-Free

Many businesses throughout the country have chosen to enact smokefree workplace policies to protect the health of their employees. In addition to eliminating exposure to a major cause of disease and death, a smokefree workplace also makes sense from a business cost perspective by reducing healthcare costs, absenteeism and lost productivity, decreasing maintenance costs, and reducing insurance liability risks and premiums.

The following is a selection of businesses in the United States that have enacted corporate smokefree policies. If you are aware of a smokefree business that is not on our list, please let us know.

Nationwide

• AstraZeneca
  
• AT&T - All company owned buildings
• BASF Corporation
• Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Calgon - Includes outdoor property
• Coca Cola
• Eli Lilly and Company - Includes outdoor property
• General Electric Company (GE) - All worksites are tobacco-free by March 2011
• General Mills - Includes within 50' of buildings, in parking garages, and company vehicles as of December 31, 2002
• Hain Celestial Foods
• IBM
• Johnson & Johnson - Transitioning to tobacco free campus' policy for worldwide locations
• Lowe's Companies Inc.- September 2003
• Marriot Hotels - Fall 2006. Smokefree policy applies to all Marriott brands in the U.S. and Canada, which covers more than 2,300 hotels, including Marriott, J.W. Marriott, Renaissance Hotel, Ritz-Carlson, Fairfield Inn, Courtyard by Marriott, Residence Inn, and Spring Hill Suites.
• MCI Communications
• Merck & Company
• Nordstrom
• Prudential Financial - Includes all subsidiaries
• Regence Group - Has worksites in Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Washington, includes outdoor property
• Sharper Image
• State Farm Insurance Company - Includes all outdoor areas of State Farm-owned property nationwide
  
• Target Corporation - Target does not sell tobacco products in any of its stores
• Texas Instruments Inc.
• USAA Insurance
• Verizon
• Westin Hotels and Resorts - January 2006. Smokefree policy applies to all 77 hotels in the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean. Westin locations in Scotland, Australia and Fiji are also now smokefree.
  

State/Local

• BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York - Headquarters campus smokefree both indoors and outdoors
• Omaha (Nebraska) Public Power District - Tobacco-free in outdoor areas
  

Manufacturing Companies

• Bechtel - Tobacco free policy in U.S. facilities
• BF Goodrich Tire Manufacturing
• Boeing
• Dow Chemical Company - January 1, 2003 for all U.S. premises; January 1, 2004 for all worldwide facilities.
• DuPont Chemical Company
• Electric Boat ­ July 2007. Tobacco free campus policy will apply to Groton, CT manufacturer.
• Marcal Paper
• Tyson Foods Inc - April 1, 2004
• Union Pacific - Includes all company property as of July 1, 2005

Restaurant Chains

• Applebee's -Thomas and King, owners of 76 Applebee's franchises, made all their restaurants in five states smokefree
• Arby's - Company-owned restaurants only
• Au Bon Pain
• A&W - Company-owned restaurants only
• Baskin & Robbins
• Bertucci's Brick Oven Pizza
• Bob Evans Restaurants - 29 Cincinnati-area locations as of July 31, 2006
• Boston Market
• Burger King - Company-owned restaurants only
• California Pizza Kitchen
• Carl's Jr.
• Chick-Fil-A
• Chuck-E-Cheese
• Church's Chicken
• CiCi's Pizza
• Dairy Queen - Company-owned restaurants only
• Dunkin' Donuts - June 1, 1991
• Hardee's - Boddie Noell Enterprises, Inc., franchiser of 320 Hardee's restaurants, made all their facilities in four states smokefree
• In 'n Out Burger
• Jack in the Box - Company-owned restaurants only
• Kenny Roger's Roasters - Company-owned restaurants only
• Kentucky Fried Chicken - 1,200 company-owned restaurants, franchises encouraged to adopt smokefree policies
• Long John Silver's - Company-owned restaurants only
  
• Mazzio's Corporations - Owner of Mazzio's Italian Eatery restaurants in ten states
• McDonald's Corporation - Company-owned restaurants only, franchises encouraged to adopt smokefree policies
• Papa John's
• Pizza Hut - 1,675 company-owned restaurants, franchises encouraged to adopt smokefree policies
• Popeye's
• Schlotzsky's
• Showbiz Pizza - Company-owned restaurants only
• Starbucks - All locations worldwide
• Taco Bell
• Taco Cabana
• TCBY - Company-owned restaurants only
• Tim Horton's
• Wendy's International Inc. - Company-owned restaurants only, franchises may voluntarily adopt smokefree policies

Resources: NJ GASP, CDC, ANR Foundation Research