State Law Prohibits Smoking Inside State Buildings
Jump to full article: WSMV-TV NBC-4 (Nashville, TN), 2008-05-05
Author: Reported By Jeremy Finley
Intro: The I-Team has discovered that some state lawmakers may not be abiding by a law meant to affect all Tennessee residents.
Video: I-Team Spots Smokers Inside State Building
Everyone, including the thousands of state workers in Nashville, have to walk outside to specified areas if they should want to smoke.
State law prohibits smoking inside state buildings, but for those who want to skirt the law and know the right people, there's a room upstairs for them. . . .
Finley said McCord's is the only office about which the I-Team received complaints. McCord shares the conference room with Rep. Park M. Strader, R-Knoxville. Strader has been out of the state and Legislature recently for cancer treatment.
It's unclear if there are other offices set up for smoking.
Could McCord or any of the people smoking in the smoking room face repercussions?
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