LIGHTING UP LIMITED
Details of a compromise bill to ban smoking in most public places and workplaces in Pennsylvania, passed Tuesday by a legislative conference committee:
BANS SMOKING AT:• Enclosed workplaces and commercial establishments.• Areas where the public is invited or permitted.
ALLOWS SMOKING AT:• Drinking establishments where food is 20 percent or less of annual sales.• A designated outdoor smoking area at a sports or recreation facility, theater or performance establishment.• Private clubs.• Up to 25 percent of the rooms in a lodging establishment, like a hotel or motel, and all rooms at full-service truck stops.• Up to 25 percent of a casino floor, and up to 50 percent if a casino can prove to the state Department of Revenue that the smoking ban is harming its business.• Nursing homes, adult-care facilities, drug and alcohol treatment facilities and mental health care facilities.• Private residences and private vehicles, unless the residence or vehicle is being used for child-care or adult-care services.• Cigar bars that are connected to a tobacco shop or where tobacco-related products total at least 15 percent of annual sales.• Tobacco shops; manufacturers, importers and wholesalers of tobacco products; manufacturers of tobacco-related products.• Tobacco-promotion events, or fundraisers for nonprofit and charitable organizations where cigars are featured.
Source: Senate Bill 246
