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Date: Mon, 06/05/06
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Smokefree Policies
Maryland: Council to vote on smokefree bill
Category
a.. Smokefree Policies
b.. Dining/Entertainment
State
a.. Maryland
Source: Baltimore (MD) Sun, 2006-06-04
Author: Larry Carson Sun Reporter
A final vote that would make Howard County the first Baltimore-area jurisdiction
to ban smoking in all public places - including bars and restaurants - is
scheduled at tomorrow night's County Council meeting.
The bill, sponsored by County Executive James N. Robey and west Columbia
Councilman Ken Ulman, is expected to pass and would take effect in June 2007. It
would make Howard the fourth Maryland county to ban smoking, joining Montgomery,
Prince George's and Talbot counties, as well as Washington. Howard approved a
law in 1996 requiring physically separate smoking sections in restaurants, with
separate ventilation systems.
The bill would prohibit smoking in all public places, plus outdoors within 15
feet of a door or window to a building, except on Main Street in Ellicott City,
and at some outdoor sporting and entertainment events.
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