A bill that would ban smoking in casinos, bus stops and other locations in Pennsylvania passed with bipartisan support Tuesday from the state House Health Committee.
The legislation known as the Protecting Workers From Secondhand Smoke Act would extend the state’s indoor smoking ban and would eliminate most exemptions in the state’s 2008 Clean Indoor Air Act, including in casinos. The ban would also include e-cigarettes, which were not in the 2008 law.
“Only 2 in 10 Pennsylvanians smoke at this point — and going out in Pennsylvania shouldn’t feel like taking a time machine to a long-gone era before the science made clear that smoking was deadly,” state Rep. Dan Frankel, D-Squirrel Hill, the prime sponsor of the bill, said in a news release.
