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With workplace smoking bans being enacted or looming in more major municipalities and states, the snowballing trend toward legal nullification of restaurants' "accommodation" option now has rolled into New Jersey and Maryland.
In the wake of recent prohibitions on smoking in restaurants in the cities of New York, Dallas and Boston, lawmakers in New Jersey and Maryland are joining New York state counterparts in seeking to move their jurisdictions into the smoke-free ranks by year-end. Those states would join California, Maine, Utah, Vermont, Florida and Delaware in that column, whose municipal counterparts grew last year to include Honolulu; El Paso, Texas; Tempe, Ariz.; and lawmakers in Atlanta, Denver, Chicago and Albuquerque, N.M., as well as in New York's Westchester and Suffolk counties are considering similar smoking bans.
Modeled after New York City's sweeping ordinance, the proposed New Jersey bill moved through the state Assembly's environmental committee this month, buoying smoke-ban proponents' hopes for further progress. The New Jersey "Clean Indoor Air Act," which seeks to outlaw smoking in most enclosed establishments, including all restaurants, bars and casinos throughout the state, is the first bill of its kind to make it out of committee in the Trenton statehouse.
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