The smoking damage causes economic damage for businesses. Parents take children and infants into the public restrooms. Children are especially susceptible to smoke, and a high number are hospitalized each year from illnesses of the ear, nose, and throat as well as the respiratory system, which are caused by and exacerbated by secondhand smoking. And the fetus is very vulnerable to smoke. The scientists observed that the nonsmoking women had been around smoke in the workplace, etc.
Elderly people are very vulnerable to smoke.
This simple preventive health measure would hurt no one, no business, no farmer. It would help innumerable people. Families that eat out, taking little children with them, elderly people eating out, pregnant women eating at a restaurant with family and friends, all of us need to be able to use a restroom that is smoke-free. It would make eating out a better and healthier experience. Governor Gilmore and Governors before him have supported the health and safety of children, and the prevention of children smoking.