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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 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.
Aimed to address opposition to a legalized marijuana initiative, the proposal would prohibit smoking in most public places, including sidewalks. Florida marijuana amendment spurs lawmakers to ...
A three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court judge's ruling that blocked the law at the request of two small businesses and a consultant who ...
The Florida Statutes are the codified, statutory laws of Florida; it currently has 49 titles. A chapter in the Florida Statutes represents all relevant statutory laws on a particular subject. [1] The statutes are the selected reproduction of the portions of each session law, which are published in the Laws of Florida, that have general ...