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However, as discrimination against smokers in the workplace has become more widespread in recent years, [citation needed] several states [which?] have enacted such laws more recently. [citation needed] In states without smoker protection laws some employers have begun refusing to hire new employees who smoke. [1]
Smoking is prohibited within 20 feet (6.1 m) of the entrance/exit of a place where the law prohibits smoking indoors. [85] Fines range from $50 for a person caught smoking in violation of the law, to between $100 and $500 for an establishment caught allowing smoking in violation of the law. [86]
The tobacco industry has focused on proposing ventilation as an alternative to smoke-free laws, though this approach has not been widely adopted in the U.S. because "in the end, it is simpler, cheaper, and healthier to end smoking". [166] The Italian smoke-free law permits dedicated smoking rooms with automatic doors and smoke extractors.
Gruters, who was a former state Republican Party chair, has worked for years to keep smoking out of the public and saw the potential change to Florida's marijuana law as a chance to bring it up again.
The ban expands a 2022 law prohibiting smoking on public beaches and according to lead sponsor, Sen. Joe Gruters, R-Sarasota, would provide “guardrails” for a proposed constitutional amendment ...
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The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (also known as the FSPTC Act) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on June 22, 2009. This bill changed the scope of tobacco policy in the United States by giving the FDA the ability to regulate tobacco products, similar to how it has regulated food and pharmaceuticals since the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.
This law restricts smoking in all work-places including health-care facilities, governmental facilities, schools, universities, airports, bars and restaurants. However, two years after the law's implementation enforcement has been deficient. Governments are facing pressures to permit work-place smoking once more by local tobacco companies. [109]