This week on September 11th the Clean Indoor Act was put into action in Pennsylvania. Smoking has been banned from restaurants, bars, retail stores and bingo halls. Fines will be enforced, with the smallest fine starting at $100 for the first fine, $200 for the second and $500 for any fines afterwards.
Under this act smoking is defined as, "the carrying by a person of a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe or other lighted smoking device."
This means that smoking will be banned on university campuses as well. A third-year student said, "When I heard about this law I almost cried. Too many people do it, they can't arrest everyone. It isn't legal to smoke cigarettes. It doesn't make you a bad person if you do."
There is a variety of opinions on this subject but mostly it is the smokers who are against the law and non-smokers who are for the law.
This final observation is only logical. Of course, smokers are upset that their right to freedom is being violated in some way.
[Via: The Quad]
