The Utah Health Department’s Indoor Clean Air Act went into effect, September 12, 2011. This law’s goal is to eliminate the exposure to secondhand smoke in indoor public places.
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Areas such as worksites, restaurants, and health care settings are already required to be smoke-free spaces. The Utah Indoor Clean Air Act (UICAA) creates a greater number of places that are required to be smoke-free.
One of the biggest additions in the UICAA is the ban on hookah smoke, emerging tobacco goods, and the smoke these items produce.
This rule equalizes smoke that comes from heated tobacco products like hookah with smoke from cigarettes, cigars, and pipe tobacco.
Steve Hadden, health program specialist of the Utah Department of Health Tobacco Prevention and Control Program said, “There is simply no safe level of exposure to tobacco smoke.”
The people who oppose this act say that its unnecessary to completely eliminate all secondhand smoke because those who go to hookah bars are coming with the intention to smoke.
