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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]
Office of the Surgeon General: Publishes in print and on the web, a variety of materials related to smoking health issues and cessation of smoking. [7] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): through its Office of Smoking and Health (OSH) is the lead federal agency for comprehensive tobacco prevention and control.
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". [173] The Italian smoke-free law permits dedicated smoking rooms with automatic doors and smoke extractors.
The new marijuana law goes into effect Jan. 1.
State tobacco laws partly changed in 1992 under the George H.W. Bush administration when Congress enacted the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Reorganization Act, whose Synar Amendment forced states to create their own laws to have a minimum age of eighteen to purchase tobacco or else lose funding from the Substance Abuse ...
The anti-smoking workers are in the fourth year of a campaign to end smoking in Atlantic City's casinos that previously relied on political efforts to get lawmakers to change the law. But those ...
“I have a wife and a son who I want to be with for a very long time,” Joseph Hafley, casino employee, said. “Getting rid of secondhand smoke in casinos would do that.”