Controlling Tobacco Sales

For information about enforcement of the New Jersey state tobacco age of sale law (no sales to minors under 19) you can contact:

Tobacco Control Program Division of Addiction Services
New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
120 South Stockton Street
PO Box 362
Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0362

tobacco hotline: 609 984-3315
www.state.nj.us/health

Your local health department should enforce the law. You can find contact information for your local health department on the state's website (click on "local health" on the home page).

 

For a "model ordinance" controlling tobacco sales, that local government can enact, with provisions to eliminate vending machines, self-service racks, etc., click here. If you want other help to control tobacco sales, our staff, including an attorney available to talk to you at no charge, has helped thousands of individuals and organizations solve tobacco problems since 1974. Call us and we'll do our best to help you.

We officially work 9 to 5, Eastern time (we often start earlier and end later), and the answering machine's always on. We're at 908 273-9368.