Medford, OR Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)

265 first covers indoor public buildings in subsection (2): no one may smoke in a building or room owned or occupied by a public or governmental agency once the person in control has posted a "NO SMOKING" notice at the principal entrance, and the code specifies the City Manager is in control of Medford City Hall for this purpose. The outdoor rule sits in subsection (3): "All parks and facilities managed and maintained by the Parks and Recreation Department are designated as tobacco and smoke free," expressly extending to "the pedestrian rights-of-way that surround each property," so the smoke-free zone is not limited to park boundaries alone.

Subsection (1) defines "Smoke Free" broadly to include possessing a lighted tobacco product, lighted tobacco paraphernalia, or any other lighted weed or plant, such as a lighted pipe, hookah, cigar, or cigarette, and it also reaches devices that simulate smoking and produce smoke or vapor, sweeping in vaping devices alongside combustible tobacco. "Tobacco" is defined to include cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco, and dipping tobacco. S. Cellular Community Park, meaning that park alone retains a lawful spot to smoke while every other Parks and Recreation property is fully smoke free.