If you’re a smoker, you’ll have to put away your cigarettes while you work or go out to eat. Although many communities have banned smoking in public places, an official statewide public smoking ban is now in effect in Indiana.
The new smoking ban officially took effect at midnight Sunday.
However, it doesn’t go all the way.
While the new state law prohibits smoking in public places, in the work place, in certain state vehicles and within 8 feet of public entrances, smoking is still allowed in bars, casinos and fraternal, social and veterans clubs.
In any part of the state, no longer can you ‘light up’ in restaurants, bowling alleys and laundry mats to name a few places.
The Indiana House passed a stronger version before it was weakened in the Senate as part of a compromise to pass some sort of public smoking ban.
Under the new ban, a city or county may pass a tougher smoking ban.
