Signs for Stores and Public Places

Since May 31, 2008, there are restrictions on how tobacco products can be displayed, handled and promoted in a retail store. These rules need to be reviewed carefully.

For information on acquiring signs, please contact your local public health unit. Click here to find the public health unit in your area.

Age Restriction and Health Warning

Retailers must post Age Restriction and Health Warning signs at any location where tobacco is sold or supplied in a place where the sign is clearly visible to the person who sells or supplies the tobacco and to the person to whom the tobacco is sold or supplied.

The signs must be in the format shown here:

• Age Restriction and Health Warning (PDF format)
• Age Restriction and Health Warning (EPS format)

Government I.D.

Retailers must post Government I.D. required signs at any location where tobacco is sold or supplied in a place where the sign is clearly visible to the person who sells or supplies the tobacco and to the person to whom the tobacco is sold or supplied.

The signs must be in the format shown here:

• Government I.D. (PDF format)
• Government I.D. (EPS format)

Enclosed Workplaces and Enclosed Public Places

Employers and proprietors must place No Smoking signs at each entrance and exit of enclosed workplaces and enclosed public places in appropriate locations and in sufficient numbers to ensure that employees and the public are aware that no smoking is permitted in the enclosed workplace or enclosed public place.

The signs must be in the format shown here:

• No Smoking (PDF format)
• No Smoking (EPS format)

Controlled Smoking Areas (CSAs) in Residential Care Facilities, Designated Veterans Facilities and Psychiatric Facilities

If a controlled smoking area in a residential care facility, designated veterans facility or psychiatric facility is set aside for the purpose of smoking, the proprietor of the facility and the employer of the workers in the facility must post You Have To Live Here To Smoke Here signs outside the entrance to the controlled smoking area.

The signs must be in the format shown here:

• You Have To Live Here To Smoke Here (PDF format)
• You Have To Live Here To Smoke Here (EPS format)

In addition, the proprietor of the facility and the employer of the workers in the facility must post, outside any entrance to the controlled smoking area, a sign indicating the maximum permitted occupancy of the controlled smoking area.

Hotels, Motels and Inns

Employers and proprietors must place No Smoking signs in every guest room that has not been designated as a smoking room.

The signs must be in the format shown here:

• No Smoking (PDF format)
• No Smoking (EPS format