Smoking Ban Jan 1,2007

[mmlx212]

Go to this Web site! It is a copy of the law in Illinois.

The SMOKE FREE ILLINOIS ACTtakes effect on January 1, 2008. Here are a few highlights you should know:
No person shall smoke in a public place or in any place of employment or within 15 feet of any entrance to a public place or place of employment. This includes 15 feet from entrances, exits, windows that open and ventilation intakes.
“Smoking” means the carrying, smoking, burning, inhaling, or exhaling of any kind of lighted pipe, cigar, cigarette, hookah, weed, herbs, or any other lighted smoking equipment.
“No Smoking” signs or the international “No Smoking” symbol shall be clearly and conspicuously posted in each public place and place of employment where smoking is prohibited.
Each public place and place of employment where smoking is prohibited shall have posted at every entrance a conspicuous sign clearly stating that smoking is prohibited.
All ashtrays shall be removed from any area where smoking is prohibited.
Violations:
oA person who smokes in an area where smoking is prohibited shall be fined in an amount that is not less than $100 and not more than $250.
oA person who owns, operates or otherwise controls a public place or place of employment that violates this Act shall be fined not less than $250 for the first violation, not less than $500 for the second violation within one year after the first violation, and not less than $2,500 for each additional violation within one year after the first violation.
oEach day that a violation occurs is a separate violation.

Go to this website for the full text of the Act... http://http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=095-0017&GA=095.

 

[bryanracing55]

The smoking act of Kent
" Smokem if you got em"

 

[jh11zracefan]

Go to this Web site! It is a copy of the law in Illinois.

Thank you so very much I had looked and couldn't find it.

 

[jh11zracefan]

No smoking at Tri-City


"Enclosed or partially enclosed sports arena" means any
sports pavilion, stadium, gymnasium, health spa, boxing arena, swimming pool, roller rink, ice rink, bowling alley, or other similar place where members of the general public assemble to engage in physical exercise or participate in athletic competitions or recreational activities or to witness sports, cultural, recreational, or other events."

I don't know Tri-City is not Enclosed or partially it is completely open according to what I read. I say its a tricky call and I might call a lawyer and ask tomorrow.

 

[38H racing]

The man does have a point. Funny a state is concerned with people smoking in public but a helmet is still not required to ride a cycle. How does the business owner tell people, " I know you have been coming in here for 15 years, but you can no longer smoke in here". In the long run it will cause job loss and people to close up their businesses. Hopefully the people who are for the ban, dont loose their job's over this..

If anyone thinks our lawmakers are taking away our rights for our own welfare, they have got to be crazy. "You can come and have some drinks and drive home, but don't you dare light up a cigarette." You can eat the most unhealthy food that you want to buy at our place, but you can't have a cigarette." You can sit your lazy butt home and eat and live off of the taxpayers(including paying your medical bills after a lifetime of being unhealthy at our expense), but don't you dare think you can be a hardworking American and have a cigarette in public. And No- I am Not a Smoker Just someone who is losing faith in the definition of freedom.

 

[Debbie Cummins]

My 2 cents worth, again....

Funny a state is concerned with people smoking in public but a helmet is still not required to ride a cycle.

I think the smoking ban is to protect the public from the second-hand smoke of smokers....the helmet law is to protect the rider only. Usually, those who are injured in a motorcycle accident and sustain head injuries don't live to tell their story; they are only harming themselves by not wearing a helmet. It's their choice to ride without a helmet. The smoker, on the other hand, still has the choice to smoke, but their smoking affects the health of countless others by their second-hand smoke.

Reading this thread, I get the opinion that smokers are now going to stay home and not go out any longer? Are they going to change their social habits and become hermits? I seriously doubt that. Times have changed...we now know the ill effects of smoking on the smoker and the innocent non-smoking by-stander. Society's rules and norms change over time--smoking is now not seen as fashionable or beneficial by the general public. Those who still want to smoke must adjust and think about what their smoking does to others. No one is telling them they can't smoke, just where they can't engage in their unhealthy habit when it affects others.

Live and let live, folks.

 

[Budracin8]

I think the smoking ban is to protect the public from the second-hand smoke of smokers....the helmet law is to protect the rider only. Usually, those who are injured in a motorcycle accident and sustain head injuries don't live to tell their story; they are only harming themselves by not wearing a helmet. It's their choice to ride without a helmet. The smoker, on the other hand, still has the choice to smoke, but their smoking affects the health of countless others by their second-hand smoke.

Reading this thread, I get the opinion that smokers are now going to stay home and not go out any longer? Are they going to change their social habits and become hermits? I seriously doubt that. Times have changed...we now know the ill effects of smoking on the smoker and the innocent non-smoking by-stander. Society's rules and norms change over time--smoking is now not seen as fashionable or beneficial by the general public. Those who still want to smoke must adjust and think about what their smoking does to others. No one is telling them they can't smoke, just where they can't engage in their unhealthy habit when it affects others.

Live and let live, folks.

Hey...your thought process makes too much sense!!! Don't you know by now, this communist state is taking away are liberties and infringing on our civil rights!!!