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• Ban not limited to bars and restaurants 

While bars and restaurants are obvious targets for Nebraska’s smoke-free ban that begins Monday, the East Central Health Department (ECDHD) is finding the much broader ramifications of the new law are largely misunderstood.

“What we have found as we’ve visited with a very wide variety of businesses in our service area, is that most business owners think the smoking ban only affects the bars and restaurants,” said the health department’s Environmental Health Coordinator Roberta Miksch. “The Nebraska Clean Indoor Air Act of 2008 requires indoor workplaces in Nebraska to be smoke-free effective June 1.

“This means the law applies to all public places from beauty shops to industrial sites, photo shops and auto repair shops to bowling alleys,” she said. *

Miksch said the law applies to all breakrooms, hallways, conference rooms and rest rooms.

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