§ 1-2-121. Purpose and intent.

Numerous reliable studies have found that tobacco smoke is a major contributor to indoor air pollution and have shown that breathing sidestream or secondhand smoke is a significant health hazard to nonsmokers. The Surgeon General of the United States has concluded that involuntary or passive smoking is the cause of disease, including lung cancer, in healthy nonsmokers and has estimated that involuntary smoking causes more deaths, approximately five thousand (5,000) per year, than all other airborne pollutants combined, excluding asbestos. The board of county commissioners recognizes the increasing evidence that smoke creates a danger to the health of some citizens and is a cause of annoyance and physical discomfort to those who are in confined spaces where smoke is present.

(Amend. of 8-16-10)