Welcome to the online version of Tracking Tobacco Laws: A Minnesota Digest. This plain-language resource for local officials, attorneys, public health professionals and advocates is now hyperlinked to all state and federal laws, regulations and legal settlements that affect the sale, marketing and use of tobacco in Minnesota.

Tracking Tobacco Laws

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(Please note: laws and rules cited are current as of the publication date. Following the 2005 legislative session, a law was passed that changed the cigarette sales tax and added a health impact fee. This law affects cigarette and tobacco retailers, distributors and subjobbers.)

Tax and Fee Update to Minnesota Tobacco Laws

Web page summarizing changes in 2005

Navigating your way through Tracking Tobacco Laws is quite simple. To locate a particular topic, you have three options: (1) Click on the topic within the “Bookmark” list on the left-hand side of the screen, (2) Click on the “Find” feature on top of the screen, or (3) Identify the topic within the Index and then scroll to the appropriate page.

Both the Master Settlement and Minnesota Settlement Agreements are linked to the digest. To find topics within the Master Settlement Agreement, use any of the above options. (Note that “Table of Contents” replaces “Index.”) To locate topics within the Minnesota Settlement Agreement, use the “Find” feature on top of the screen.

Hyperlinked items are underlined and highlighted in red. Please note that links to specific sections within the Code of Federal Regulations default to the main index of the CFR, where you can enter and then pull up the individual section by cite or title.