Maryland Officials Classify Indoor & Outdoor Smoking For Ban

Publication Date: 2007-08-21

• Author:Scott Hershberger
• Publication:WHAG-TV NBC25

The smoking ban takes effect in about six months, but it's still not clear where smokers will be allowed to light up.

Smokers in Maryland won't be able to light up indoors much longer.

"Cigarette smoking, tobacco smoking, is a huge public health issue," says Dr. Clifford Mitchell of the Maryland Department of Mental Hygiene.

Now that the smoking ban has been signed into law, it is the job of Dr. Mitchell and others at the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to implement it.

But first they wanted to get some feedback from the public.