This chapter is adopted pursuant to the municipal affairs provisions of the city charter for the purpose of prohibiting smoking in most enclosed places open to the public in order to reduce the hazards which smoking causes to those persons involuntarily exposed to side-stream and secondhand smoke, and for the further purpose of prohibiting and regulating smoking in places of employment also for the protection of those employees who are involuntarily exposed to side-stream or secondhand smoke.
(Adopted by initiative, dated 11/3/92 (part))