It will be easier to comply with federal requirements to create a healthy workplace. Employee productivity will increase and illness-related absences will be reduced. There will be lower costs for insurance, cleaner premises and less maintenance. There is no argument that Senate Bill 99 will make smoking in Delaware seriously inconvenient. Lighting up a cigarette should be as difficult as possible so that more smokers will decide the expensive addiction is not worth the hassle and will quit.
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I hope kids will get the message and never start. The fact is if we can lower smoking rates, we will also lower our cancer and heart disease mortality rates. We will have healthier babies and lower state health care costs. Everyone is a winner with Senate Bill 99. State Sen. David B. McBride, a Democrat from New Castle, represents the 13th Senatorial District.