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Vt. Bans Indoor Smoking Rooms in the Workplace
Jump to full article: Valley News (West Lebanon, NH), 2009-07-15
Author: Martin F. Downs Valley News Staff Writer
Intro: White River Junction -- Not long ago, the VA Medical Center here provided a room where veterans and employees could go to smoke. But ashtrays have since been replaced by high-tech fitness equipment, and smoking has been relegated to an outdoor shelter by the parking lot.
The former smoking lounge, just off a lobby in an administrative building, closed about two years ago, according to VA Medical Center spokesman Andy LaCasse.
At the time, Vermont law allowed employers to set aside indoor smoking areas for workers. LaCasse said that the hospital's acting director, Kathryn Harty, took the initiative to move smoking outside.
"It was obvious that it needed to be out," LaCasse said.
On the first of this month, all Vermont workplaces that hadn't already banned smoking indoors were required by law to do so.
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