No-smoking signs can be provided by various health organizations. That list also includes indoor service and cashier lines, which affects every restaurant and other businesses in the Commonwealth. This is a preventive health bill. Secondhand smoke is harmful to everyone who breathes, causing immediate health problems, and long range health problems. Restrooms are often small and poorly ventilated.
People use the restroom because it is a necessary room.
They expect it to be clean. When smoking is permitted, not only is the air fouled with dangerous chemicals and carcinogens, but the cigarette and cigar butts are floating in the toilet, cigarette burns are on the toilet seat, ashes are on the floor, and occasionally a fire is started in the trash bin. 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.