Smoking-ban supporters try to restore bill's restrictions

Publication Date: 2009-04-23

• Author:Winston-Salem (NC) Journal
• Publication:James Romoser

Supporters of a ban on smoking in indoor workplaces in North Carolina are trying to restore a provision that would include adult-only businesses under the ban.

The smoking ban was approved by the N.C. House earlier this month -- but only after the bill was amended to exempt bars and other places that are not open to people younger than 18.

The bill is now before the N.C. Senate.

The Senate Health Committee will take up a substitute bill that will eliminate the exemption and restore the ban to its more restrictive form, according to the chairman of the health committee, Sen. William Purcell.