---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 24323"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "24323"
heading: "Prohibition on smoking on Amtrak trains"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/24323"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Rail Programs"
  - "Part C — Passenger Transportation"
  - "Chapter 243 — Amtrak"
---

# §24323. Prohibition on smoking on Amtrak trains

- (a) **Prohibition.—** Beginning on the date of enactment of this section, Amtrak shall prohibit smoking, including the use of electronic cigarettes, onboard all Amtrak trains.
- (b) **Electronic Cigarette Defined.—** In this section, the term “electronic cigarette” means a device that delivers nicotine or other substances to a user of the device in the form of a vapor that is inhaled to simulate the experience of smoking.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–58, div. B, title II, § 22209(a), Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 707.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The date of enactment of this section, referred to in subsec. (a), is the date of enactment of title II of div. B of Pub. L. 117–58, which was approved Nov. 15, 2021.