(A) Smoking creates serious hazards to the personal health and safety of people near the smoking and serious threats of damage to property that may result from the incendiary nature of smoking. It has been determined that breathing ambient smoke is a health hazard to both smokers and non-smokers. Smoking produces substances considered hazardous to health including carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, nitrous oxide and formaldehyde. Secondhand smoke (68% of the total smoke produced by a cigarette) affects the health of the bystander, interferes with respiratory tract defenses and often causes non-smokers to have allergic or irritating reactions. Secondhand smoke is a known cause of lung cancer.
(B) Because smoking has potentially harmful effects, material and direct, on the public health, safety, welfare and comfort, and on property of residents of the village, it is necessary and desirable to establish regulations that prohibit smoking in enclosed public places and in enclosed places of employment.
(Ord. 07-01, passed 1-23-2007)