New Mexico's Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act bans smoking in workplaces, restaurants, and bars, and Albuquerque extends restrictions to city parks, sports fields, transit stops, and the Sunport, including vaping in many areas.
Indoor smoking in Albuquerque businesses is regulated by the Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act (NM §24-16-1+), which prohibits smoking in nearly all indoor workplaces and public buildings. Albuquerque supplements the state law with local rules banning smoking and electronic cigarettes in city parks, on sports fields, near playgrounds, at transit stops, and on Sunport airport property. Cannabis smoking is governed separately by the New Mexico Cannabis Regulation Act, which forbids public consumption regardless of legality. Property owners may impose stricter no-smoking policies and signage is required at entrances to regulated spaces.
Smoking in a regulated indoor workplace or vaping in a posted park, playground, or transit area can result in civil fines, while public cannabis consumption carries additional state penalties.
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