Contact resources listed in this document for more information. Be a leader in helping to draw up a fair plan for a smoke free workplace. Ask coworkers what they want and would be willing to do. Know the law. If you work in a school, hospital or other public facility, you already may be covered by a law prohibiting smoking.
Some laws also require privately owned companies to have a smoking policy.
In most states, employers must provide reasonably safe workplaces. This law may prove more powerful now that secondhand smoke is known to cause cancer. More people are becoming worried about secondhand smoke and less willing to be exposed to it. By law, all airline flights six hours or less within the U.S. and all interstate bus travel are smoke free. State and local laws regulating smoking in public places vary greatly.