Missouri tobacco and nicotine bills

What it would do: Repeals local authority to enact tobacco regulations and establishes state preemption over regulating tobacco, alternative nicotine, and vapor products, except local age restrictions under 21 and ordinances in effect before January 1, 2026 remain enforceable.

What it would do: The state preempts local regulation of tobacco, alternative nicotine, and vapor products, prohibiting local ordinances on ingredients, age limits over 21, licensing bans, and product bans. Local enforcement of age restrictions under 21 and pre-January 1, 2026 ordinances remain permitted.

What it would do: Creates a homestead property tax exemption for disabled veterans, Purple Heart recipients, and Gold Star spouses beginning January 1, 2027, ranging from $3,000 to 100% of property taxes based on disability rating. Funds the exemption through new excise taxes on cigarettes, vapor products, alternative nicotine products, tobacco paraphernalia, and hemp-derived consumable products.

What it would do: Repeals and replaces Missouri's clean indoor air act to prohibit smoking and electronic smoking devices in most indoor areas including workplaces, restaurants, bars, and public buildings, with limited exemptions for exempt cigar-tobacco bars and retail tobacco businesses, and establishes enforcement procedures and penalties.

What it would do: Allows political subdivisions to increase taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products only with approval from a majority of qualified voters in that subdivision voting on the proposal.

What it would do: Beginning January 1, 2027, imposes an additional tax of 66.5 mills per cigarette on cigarette sales, with revenue deposited to the state general revenue fund, subject to voter approval at the November 2026 election.

What it would do: Expands tobacco product regulations to include alternative nicotine products and vapor products, requiring manufacturers and wholesalers to obtain licenses, imposing a ten percent tax on these products beginning January 1, 2027, and establishing age restrictions and retail compliance requirements.

What it would do: Modifies indoor air quality provisions by defining terms related to smoking and vapor products, establishing where smoking is prohibited in public places and workplaces, and creating exceptions for certain venues like bars, taverns, and large arenas.

What it would do: Beginning January 1, 2027, imposes an additional cigarette tax equal to the lowest tax levied by any other state or ten mills per cigarette, whichever is lower, with revenue deposited in the health initiatives fund, subject to voter approval at the November 2026 election.

What it would do: Raises the minimum age to purchase tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products from eighteen to twenty-one years old, and establishes related sales restrictions, warning requirements, penalties for violations, and enforcement procedures.

What it would do: Allows political subdivisions to increase taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products only with approval from a majority of qualified voters in that subdivision voting on the proposal.

What it would do: Repeals and replaces Missouri's indoor air quality law to prohibit smoking, including electronic smoking devices and marijuana, in most indoor areas including workplaces, restaurants, bars, and public buildings, with limited exemptions for exempt cigar-tobacco bars and retail tobacco businesses.