Businesses finding Clean Indoor Air Act is helping
Cumberland Times-News
Employees from the Allegany and Garrett counties health department frequently inspect restaurants, taverns and other appropriate businesses to see if the non-smoking provisions of the state Clean Indoor Act are being violated.
A Garrett County establishment was fined $100 recently for having done so a second time. A third offense would draw a $500 fine and subsequent offenses would result in a $1,000 fine.
Garrett health officer Rodney Glotfelty said such violations aren’t often found.
That doesn’t surprise us, because businesses seem to be taking the law seriously.
One reason this is so is that patrons who do not smoke are appreciative of being in a non-smoking environment. Being in the presence of tobacco smoke can be offensive to non-smokers, and the dangers of inhaling secondary smoke are proven.
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The owners of one restaurant have told us that when the smoking ban was imposed, they thought their business would suffer.
What happened, they said, was that their business actually improved.
So, we believe, did their own health prospects and those of their employees and patrons. Whether smokers agree with it or not, the law is a good one, and it works.
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