Smokers Welcome in NJ. The Indoor Clean Air Act failed to pass the New jersey legislature last month. The bill, as originally written, would have banned smoking in common areas of hotels, casinos, restaurants, bars and banks. It underwent changes to allow smoking in casino gambling areas, owner-operated bars, simulcasting rooms, tobacco bars. This version, however, was not enacted. A push to get the lame duck legislature to pass the bill failed. The American Lung Association this week gave New Jersey an "F" for its air quality conditions -- based in large part on New Jersey's failure to ban smoking in restaurants and bars. Meanwhile, in Georgia, a state senator intends to introduce a bill within the next two weeks banning indoor smoking in public places.
Posted by franchiselawblog at January 12, 2004 04:37 PM